Discipline: Visual Art – sculpture

David Baskin

Discipline: Visual Art – sculpture
Region: Brooklyn, NY
MacDowell Fellowships: 2006
More: www.davidbaskin.net
David Baskin is a sculptor, installation, and visual artist who lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. Baskin, a graduate from The Cooper Union, has had his work exhibited in several solo exhibitions, such as Arts Brookfield, Grace Building Lobby in New York, the Freight+Volume Gallery in New York, the Sculpture Center in New York, Ingalls &Associates in Miami, FL, and the Black and White Gallery in Brooklyn, NY. Group exhibitions that have featured his work include the Brooklyn Museum of Art, the Marianna Boesky Gallery in New York, Carolina Nitsch in New York, the Pavel Zoubok Gallery in New York, the Munson Williams Proctor Arts Institute in New York, the Triennale Design Museum in Milan, Italy, Musée de Design et d'arts Appliqués Contemporains in Lausanne, Switzerland, and the Rudolf Budia Gallery in Vienna, Austria. Additionally, Baskin has been the recipient of a grant from the Pollock-Krasner Foundation, and has taught at The Cooper Union School of Art, the New York Institute of Technology, the School of Visual Arts in New York, the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, NY, and the University of Buffalo in New York. Baskin is one of the original members of the Brooklyn based non-profit art organization Smack Mellon.

Studios

Alexander

David Baskin worked in the Alexander studio.

Originally designed to be a visual art gallery, this facility was built in memory of the late John White Alexander (1856-1915) and funded by Elizabeth Alexander and their son James. John White Alexander was highly regarded as a portrait painter and, in the early part of the 20th century, served…

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