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David Korty (b. 1971, San Francisco, California) received an MFA at the University of California, Los Angeles CA (1998) following a BFA at Rhode Island School of Design, Providence RI (1992). In his geometric and defined style, Korty distills the human figure, urban landscapes, and and still life subjects into subtle arrangements of pattern, color and shape. Employing collage, ink, and pencil, Korty’s sensitivity to color and contour combine with his formalist interest in surface, outline, and the interplay of two-dimensional and three-dimensional space. The work he creates seem to echo the angular configurations of origami, the simplified linearity of architectural plans, and the encoded appearance of arrayed symbols or hieroglyphs.
David Korty has shown extensively in Los Angeles, in solo exhibitions at Night Gallery, China Art Objects, Kohn Gallery and LAXART; at Derek Eller Gallery and Greene Naftali in New York; and at Sadie Coles HQ in London. Korty's work has been acquired by the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; the Grunwald Center for Graphic Arts, Los Angeles; the Judith Rothschild Foundation; and the Rubell Collection. His work has been covered in Artforum, The New York Times, The Guardian, and Modern Painters, among other publications. In 2020, he was awarded the Frederick Hammersely Visiting Artist residency at the University of New Mexico. He lives and works in Los Angeles.
David Korty has shown extensively in Los Angeles, in solo exhibitions at Night Gallery, China Art Objects, Kohn Gallery and LAXART; at Derek Eller Gallery and Greene Naftali in New York; and at Sadie Coles HQ in London. Korty's work has been acquired by the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; the Grunwald Center for Graphic Arts, Los Angeles; the Judith Rothschild Foundation; and the Rubell Collection. His work has been covered in Artforum, The New York Times, The Guardian, and Modern Painters, among other publications. In 2020, he was awarded the Frederick Hammersely Visiting Artist residency at the University of New Mexico. He lives and works in Los Angeles.