Dave Muller Biography

Dave Muller, American (1964 - )

	Lives and works in Los Angeles, CA

	Education
	California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA, M.F.A.
	School of Visual Arts, Fine Arts Graduate Program, New York
	University of California , Davis, B.A.S., Chemistry & Art

	Solo Exhibitions
2006	"Piles & Globes, Likes & Loves," Blum & Poe, Los Angeles
	“I Want It Louder,” Gladstone Gallery, New York

2005	Stars and Bars (American), Anthony Meier Fine Arts, San Francisco, CA

2004	I Like Your Music, Blum & Poe, Los Angeles, CA
	San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
	EngholmEngelhorn Galerie, Vienna, Austria
	Side Street Projects 11 th Annual Phantom Ball, Pasadena, CA

2003	The Approach, London, UK
	Murray Guy, New York, NY

2002	Dave Muller: Sprawling (and mini-sprawl) , Blum & Poe, Santa Monica, CA
	Dave Muller: Connections, Center for Curatorial Studies Museum, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York (curated by Amada Cruz) (travels to Armand Hammer Museum of Art, Los Angeles)

2001	Current 85, Dave Muller: Spatial, Saint Louis Art Museum, Saint Louis, MI
	Clothes, Polaroids, Movies & Music, Blum & Poe, Santa Monica, CA
	Galleria Allesandra Bonomo, Rome, Italy

2000	How to Secede (Without Really Trying), The Approach, London, UK
	Spatial, Murray Guy, New York, NY
	Thermal, Three Day Weekend, Los Angeles, CA (with David Hughes)

1999	here and there, Four Walls, San Francisco, CA
	Chelsea, Project Wall, Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Santa Monica, CA

1998	L, L, L, L, L, L, L, L, A, A, A, A, A, A, A, A, Blum & Poe, Santa Monica, CA
	Apple, Curt Marcus Gallery, New York, NY

1997	Love is All Around (In Black and White and Color), Spanish Box, Santa Barbara, CA

1996	Studio 246 (with Alex Slade), Kunstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, Germany

1993	A Number of Ladders (Borrowed), Broad Studio #2, Cal Arts
	D301, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA
	Rex Ravenelle, David A. Muller, Due North, D300 Gallery, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA

1992	Woo, Mint Gallery, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA

1990	Games, Oblong Salon, Davis, CA

1989	David. A Muller, William Matthew Humphrey, Basement Gallery, University of California, Davis, CA

Dave Muller is known for running a nomadic Los Angeles art project called Three Day Weekend, which functions simultaneously as a social situation and artwork showcase. This traveling party/exhibition has taken place in various countries. With Spatial (2000), he presents a multi-paneled watercolor panorama view of the night sky, including some earthly things that intrude into the view. The work lightly suggests drip painting, the sublime, and the connection in artistic practice between inner and outer space. Muller (b. 1964, California) lives and works in Los Angeles.

Dave Muller's work has been featured in solo exhibitions at Murray Guy, New York (2000), and Blum & Poe, Santa Monica, CA (1999). Group shows include "Made in California: Now," LACMA, Los Angeles (2000); "democracy!," Royal College of Art, London (2000); and "After the Gold Rush," Thread Waxing Space, NY (1999), among others. He has also curated exhibitions at the Frankfurt Art Fair (2000) and the Soho Arts Festival, NY (1998).

“This project attempts to portray various belief systems, as they pertain to describing space, in a non-hierarchical, all-over manner. Concepts of space have existed since the beginning of thought. Some, over time, have been superceded. Others coexist in a seemingly contradictory manner. For example, the twinkling star twinkles because of differing densities in our atmosphere, not because it is itself changing. A bright moving star might be a communications satellite, or the new space station. Or it might be a small white dot in one of these drawings.

Explaining the heavens has always been a hotbed for the imagination. The universe is either expanding infinitely, or expanding and contracting, or who knows what. Harvesting asteroids for precious metals has almost moved out of the realm of science fiction. Planets have been detected in other stellar systems. Scientific concepts of time and space are still in flux.

Outer space is interesting precisely because it is unattainable to us normal folk. We can only look at it from afar, and extrapolate intricate theories. It's a bit like constructing the past from fossils. We make movies about dinosaurs. But do we really know what color they were? Does it matter? After all, isn't it really about us?”

--Dave Muller, 2000

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