David Roth (b. 1942)

A conceptual abstract artists, his work reflects his fascination with "the reflection of light on a 'necessarily' elusive material surface." Roth works to formulate with color. The graphs he executes are proportioned according to a strict mathematical formula and the pictures are composed according to horizontal and vertical divisions on the graph paper.

Born in New York City in 1942, he studied with Harry Callahan, Aaron Siskind, Eugene Dana, Misch Kohn and Richard Koppe at the Institute of Design (The New Bauhaus), Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT).

In the 1960's he designed a series of Poster Poems with Alan Ginsburg, Robert Creeley, Michael McClure, Robert Olson and Louis Zukofsky. Roth's original works have been available over the years at several galleries, from New York to Los Angeles, from Paris to Stockholm. Various publishers have issued over 60 editions of his prints.

Selected Group Exhibitions:
1967 State University of New York, Buffalo
1972 The Brooklyn Museum, New York
1972 The Newark Museum, New Jersey
1972 Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois
1973 Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, Ohio
1973 Museum at Art, Rhode Island School of Design
1974 Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indiana
1974 Taft Museum, Cincinnati, Ohio
1974 Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio
1975 New York Cultural Center
1976 Indianapolis Museum of Art


Public and Corporate Collections:
The Albright-Knox
Amstar Corporation
American Telephone and Telegraph
Ball State University Museum
Philadelphia Museum of Art
Chase Manhattan Collection
Museum at Contemporary Arts, Teheran, Iran (Gift from Nelson Rockefeller)
Hess Oil Corporation
Lehman Brothers
First National City Bank
Rockefeller University
Owens-Corning Fiberglass
Swiss Investment Bank
United Mutual Savings & Loan
Newark Museum at Art

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