David East

Background

About David East

Currently serving as Chair of Ceramics at the Maryland Institute College of Art, David S. East has taught and been a visiting artist at numerous locations including University of Missouri-Columbia as an Assistant Professor (2001-2007), Alfred University, Kansas City Art Institute, Massachusetts College of Art, Illinois State University, Illinois Wesleyan University, Washington University, Ohio University and Tainan National College of Art, Tainan, Taiwan. David’s recent work focuses on ceramics, sculpture, installation, and digital fabrication technologies. Recently his research has concerned itself with architectural and design references revolving around issues of urban planning, architectural ornament and design as signifiers of our cultural history. His work “attempts to reflect on the monumental within the mundane, and seeks to bore out the middle of modernism to see its split-level by-products”. He has been exhibited nationally and internationally in juried and curated exhibitions, including the GICBiennale 2011, Icheon, Korea and recent solo exhibition at the Jane Hartsook Gallery, Greenwich House Pottery, NY, NY. He has received numerous awards including several Individual Artist Awards from the Maryland State Arts Council, those from the Lighton Foundation, and the McKnight Foundation. He was in residence at the European Ceramic Work Centre in 2007 and was the Visiting Artist in Residence at Tyler School of Art in Philadelphia, PA in the fall of 2010. David received his B.F.A in Ceramics from the University of Wisconsin – River Falls (1997) and his M.F.A from Southern Illinois University Edwardsville