David Pagel
Introduction '''David Pagel''' is an American art critic, educator, curator, dioramatist and bike enthusiast.
Contemporary art criticism Since 1991, Pagel has been a regular contributor to the ''Los Angeles Times.'' He is a professor of art theory and history at Claremont Graduate University, where he has taught in the art department since 1994.He is also an adjunct curator at the Parrish Art Museum in Water Mill, New York.Pagel has written numerous essays for exhibition catalogs by such artists as Jim Isermann, Rodney Carswell, Roy Dowell, David Klamen, Michael Reafsnyder, Robert Zakanitch, Tim Bavington, Sush Machida, Leslie Love Stone, Ron Nagle, Elizabeth Patterson, Asad Faulwell, Wendell Gladstone, and Irene Hardwicke Olivieri.He was the recipient of an Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship in Contemporary Arts Criticism in 1990 and was a Macgeorge Fellow at the University of Melbourne in Australia in 2002.
Curatorial activities David Pagel has curated:*''Unfinished Business'' at the Parrish Art Museum (2016)*''Pieceable Kingdom'' at the Beacon Arts Building (2011)*''Underground Pop'' at the Parrish Art Museum (2010)*''LA Now'' at the Las Vegas Art Museum (2009)*''Painting Design'' at Claremont Graduate University (2007)*''702 Series: Sush Machida Gaikotsu'' at Las Vegas Art Museum (2007)*''POPulence'' at Blaffer Gallery, University of Houston (2005) *''Damaged Romanticism: A Mirror of Modern Emotion'' (with Terrie Sultan) for the Blaffer Gallery at the University of Houston (8/22/08-11/15/08) and the Grey Art Gallery at New York University (1/13/09-4/4/09)*''Electric Mud'' at the Blaffer (1/17/09-3/28/09)
Education *M.A., Harvard University, Art History 1987*B.A., Stanford University, Modern Thought and Literature, with Honors and Distinction in the Humanities, 1985
Bibliography *''Darren Waterston: Representing The Invisible'' by Dave Hickey, David Pagel*''Irene Hardwicke Olivieri : Paintings'' by David Pagel*''Plane/Structures'' by David Pagel*''Fifteen: A Fifteen-Year Survey of Jim Isermann's Work'' by David Pagel*''The Smiths'' (Seton Smith, Kiki Smith and Tony Smith) by Gilbert Brownstone, Eleanor Heartney and David Pagel*''Postmark : An Abstract Effect'' by Louis Grachos and David Pagel *''The Cowboys Stadium: Art + Architecture'' by David Dillon and David Pagel
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