ALWAYS INSPIRING: DAVID CHOE
Posted on 06. Apr, 2009 by ART BATTERY GROUP in THE ART HEADS SPEAK OUT
David Choe (born 1976, Los Angeles, CA) is a muralist and graphic artist. His murals ornament walls from Los Angeles to Vietnam, as does his graffiti. He is known as much for his exaggerated vulgarity as for his aesthetic sense.
His self-published (with a Xeric Foundation grant) award-winning graphic novels, Slow Jams, (1996) and Bruised Fruit (2002) introduced diverse groups of people to museum art, and alternatively to the graphic novel genre. His most recent book is Cursiv: Giant Robot presents a book of dirty drawings (2003).
His first solo show was at a small ice cream shop on Melrose Avenue of Los Angeles’ westside, called Double Rainbow, where his show was supposed to run a month, but stayed up for 2 years, constantly changing after pieces started selling better than the ice cream.
One of his first solo exhibitions was held twice at Anno Domino Gallery in San Jose (2003 and 2006). His first major solo exhibition was held at The Jonathan Levine Gallery in NYC.
Some of his earlier work can be found in issues of Hustler, Raygun, Vice and Juxtapoz magazine.
