Astrid Dick Awarded Milton and Sally Michel Avery Residency for a Visual Artist

December 8, 2023

M.David and Co. would like to congratulate Astrid Dick on being named the 2023 recipient of the Milton and Sally Michel Avery Residency for a Visual Artist by the Yaddo Corporation.  Astrid was awarded and fulfilled her Yaddo residency in Saratoga Springs, NY earlier this year from May to July. She is currently preparing her upcoming solo exhibition at our gallery.  

Two coats of paint

October 1, 2023

Two Coats of Paint included our current show, How to Disappear Completely, in their monthly selected gallery guide. Read the full guide here.

Arcade project zine

September 28, 2023

Roman Kalinovski recently published a review of our booth at the SPRING/BREAK Art Show in the Arcade Project Zine.

“Also hailing from Scandinavia, Norwegian artist Lise Ellingsen’s installation — curated by M. David & Co. — uses claw machines and Norse mythology as allegories for humanity’s self-destruction. The installation is centered around a giant mechanical claw holding a depiction of Aðumbla (a bovine Norse deity of creation) plucked from the surrounding magical forest and appearing moments away from slipping out of the claw’s grasp. There is also an interactive claw machine that visitors can play for a chance to win 3D-printed sculptures of figures from Norse mythology.”

Read the full review here.

Two coats of paint

May 11, 2023

Two Coats of Paint recently published a lovely review of “causality”, a group exhibition crated by Jason Andrew.

“Fifteen years ago, Jason Andrew was one of relatively few adventurous impresarios and gallerists who together established Bushwick as a New York art community and destination. For nearly five years, his project space Norte Maar was a steady source of the neighborhood’s sublime, funky buzz of possibility for aspiring, often young, artists. Andrew and Norte Maar have moved on, but he has not forgotten Bushwick. After a ten-year absence, he has returned to curate the relentlessly energetic and eclectic group show “Causality” at M. David & Co.”

Read the full review here.

Astrid Dick at MIT

April 26, 2023

Astrid Dick’s painting “I love America and America loves me”, which was included in our show “Inhabited Touch” last March, is now a part of the permanent collection of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Department of Economics.

In her words: “In front of my painting my professors Sara Ellison and my PhD dissertation advisor Nancy Rose and then classmate now MacArthur fellow Amy Finkelstein - I was so lucky to be nurtured by these women during my five years at MIT 1997-2002 (including my main advisor Susan Athey now at Stanford) - MIT was a dream to me made real thanks to the generosity of this beautiful institution (rare thing) and humans like these rock star genius women (no exaggeration! Nobel prize stock) behind it. Thank you Sara for all the care and the love and your support of my art for so many years now.”

Artist's Notebook
BEAUTIFIL GAMES: FOOTBALL, ART, BEAUTY, SPECTACLE

March 15, 2023

Astrid Dick’s article on football and painting was published on Two Coats of Paint’s “Artists Notebook”.

“On December 18th, 2022, Argentina, my country of origin, won the FIFA World Cup in Qatar against France, my country of residence. It was perhaps the most epic and thrilling final in this international tournament’s history. Two months later, Argentina’s victory is still slowly settling in my mind. As time passes, I realize more than ever how football – or fútbol, soccer, calcio, etc – at its highest level is a collective practice that parallels the practice of art, where the individual and the team refine and adapt their senses and skill, where gestures leave their imprint in memory, and where a decisive move can determine the outcome.” - Astrid Dick

Read the full article here.

INTERVIEW WITH MICHAEL DAVID

January 4, 2023

Michael David, gallery founder, curator, and artist, was recently 
interviewed about his current exhibition "The Mirror Stage" at Bill Lowe Gallery on “City Lights with Lois Reitzes”, a podcast of WABE, Atlanta metro area NPR/PBS affiliate.

Read and listen to the full interview here. 

HYPERALLERGIC REVIEW

November 30, 2022

“Whose Stripe is it, Anyway?”
John Yau wrote a beautiful review of Astrid Dick’s work at M. David & Co. for Hyperallergic.

“I never know when I might see a painting that makes me want to look again, look longer, and think harder about what is in front of me. Recently, I gave a reading at M. David & Co., a Brooklyn gallery run by the artist Michael David. At the reading, each poet stood in front of a large painting made of two different-sized canvases abutted together that hung alone on a recessed wall. Even though someone always seemed to be standing in front of the painting, I was struck by what I saw.” - John Yau

Read the full Article here.

Tivoli Open Studios

September 17 - 18, 2022

Judy Pfaff Studio

283 E Kerley Corners Rd
Tivoli, NY 12583

Judy Pfaff, Hideo Mabuchi, Michael David, and Astrid Dick.

MacArthur fellows Judy Pfaff and Hideo Mabuchi premiere their collaborative project with the MacArthur Foundation while Pfaff Compound residents Michael David and Astrid Dick present works completed during their residency.