Discipline: Visual Art – painting

David Fludd

Discipline: Visual Art – painting
Region: New York, NY
MacDowell Fellowships: 2024

David Fludd has a B.A. in art from Morehouse College and an M.F.A. in painting and printmaking from the Yale School of Art. He has also studied printmaking and animation at New York University. His was most recently in the exhibition “RETOLD: African American Art and Folklore” at the Akron Art Museum.

Fludd has been an artist-in-residence at the Studio Museum in Harlem and Knox College, and a Fellow at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, MA, and the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. He has won both a John S. Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship the Rome Prize for painting.

At MacDowell, Fludd new created works on paper focusing on improvisation and works of the imagination.

Studios

Cheney

David Fludd worked in the Cheney studio.

Cheney Studio was given to MacDowell by Mrs. Benjamin P. Cheney and Mrs. Karl Kauffman. Like Barnard Studio, Cheney is a low, broadly massed bungalow. Sited on a steep westward slope, its porches are supported on wooden posts and fieldstone with lattices. Although it still retains its appealing character, the original design of the shingled building…

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