David Kimball Anderson

David Kimball Anderson, born in Los Angeles in 1946, has been a practicing studio artist since 1969. His sculptures read as a metaphor for his mastery of Earth’s most obdurate materials in the service of the most delicate, allusive ideas and tender feelings.

Anderson is the recipient of three National Endowment for the Arts Individual Fellowships, a Pollack-Krasner Foundation Grant, and a John Michael Kohler Arts Center Arts/Industry residency. He was the sole recipient of the SECA Award from the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art in 1973. Anderson began his exhibition career with a one-person show at the Berkeley Art Center (California) in 1972 followed by another solo exhibition at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art in 1973. In 1975, he was included in the Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. His first solo exhibition in New York occurred in 1978 with the Braunstein/Thorpe/Kind collective space at 139 Spring Street. Anderson continues to exhibit both nationally and internationally.

Anderson attended the San Francisco Art Institute (California) in the late sixties and focused his studies with Bruce Nauman and James Reineking. In 1970, he took a job as an assistant to the American ceramicist Peter Voulkos, who had begun to make monumental bronze pieces. The assistantship with Voulkos was a fit. During his two-year tenure with Voulkos, Anderson was privileged to enjoy studio visits by contemporary curators and gallerists from both coasts, assisting in some of his first professional exhibitions.