David Scott Schell
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Portland, OR (USA)
schell.david@gmail.com
Instagram: @schell_david

​Representation: Augen Gallery

Richard Speer's review of Casual Plans on Visual Art Source, October, 2023

Solo Exhibitions

2023 Casual Plans                                                     Augen Gallery, Portland, OR

2022 Conditional                                                       57W57ARTS, NY, NY


2022 Current Surroundings (solo exhibition)        Dengerink Gallery,
                                                                                    Washington State University Vancouver, Vancouver, WA


2021 intimate, intimate                                            Augen Gallery, Portland, OR

2017 Just Like This For a Little While                       Oranj Studio, Portland, OR

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Group Exhibitions


2023 Recent Work by Gallery Artists                       Augen Gallery, Portland, OR

2020 Pearl (Gallery 114 group show)                      Portland, OR

2020 Artists Under Quarantine                                Augen Gallery, Portland, OR

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019 Reductive Non Objective Project                    Sydney, Australia
                                                    
2019 Temporary Fun                                                  Augen Gallery, Portland, OR

2019 The End Of An Era (group show)                     Corciano, Italy

2019 New Modern (group show)                              Five Walls, Melbourne, Australia

2019 PDX Window Project                                         PDX Contemporary Art, Portland, OR

2019 End of the Beginning                                         University of Southern Queensland, Queensland, Australia
(Reductive Non-Object Project) 
                              
​2018 What Develops                                                   
The Floating Gallery, Portland, OR
(with Brenna Murphy and David
Trowbridge; Curated by Percy Wise)

 
2018  Artworks Northwest
                                         Umpqua Valley Arts Association, Roseburg, OR 
(juror: Andries Fourie)

2017 Hold On Tight (group show)                              Nine Gallery, Portland, OR

2017 Teachers As Artists/Beyond The                        Maryhill Museum of Art, Goldendale, WA
Demos


2017 The 60th Annual Exhibition of                           Chautauqua, NY
Contemporary Art at the Chautauqua
Institute


2015 Bowery Gallery Juried Exhibition                       Bowery Gallery, New York, NY

(juror: Stephen Westfall)

2015 Transformation Chase                                        North View Gallery, Portland, OR
(with Pat Boas, Brenden Clenaghen, 
and Michelle Ross)
                                     


2014 Then and Now                                                      Gallery 114, Portland, OR

2014 Bowery Gallery Juried Exhibition                       Bowery Gallery, New York, NY
(juror: David Cohen)

2013 Beyond the Demos VIII                                       Sisters Art Works in Sisters, OR and Franklin Crossing in Bend, OR

2013 Beyond the Demos VII                                        Gallery 214, Pacific Northwest College of Art, Portland, OR

2011 Art About Agriculture                                          Oregon State University (Department of Agricultural Science), Corvallis, OR

2010 Distillation (Curator)                                            Gallery 114, Portland, OR

2009 Close to Home                                                      Gallery 114, Portland, OR

2008 New Members Show                                            Gallery 114, Portland, OR

2007 Expressions West                                                  Coos art Museum, Coos Bay, OR

2007 Do North                                                                Interstate Firehouse Cultural Center

2006 Paintings and Drawings                                        Centrum Gallery, Oregon College of Art and Craft, Portland, OR

2006 Juried Show                                                            Bowery Gallery, New York, NY (juror: Lois Dodd)

2006 Art Media, Past and Present                                 Portland Art Center, Portland, OR

2005 Group Drawing Show                                            Oxbow Gallery, Northampton, MA

2005 Paintings and Drawings                                        Guardino Gallery, Portland, OR

2004 Paperwork…A Summer Drawing Salon              Savage Art Resources, Portland, OR

2004 Recent Paintings                                                    L and B Viewing Gallery, Portland, OR

2001 Faculty Exhibit                                                        Portland State University, Portland, OR

2000 Faculty Exhibit                                                        Clackamas Community College, Clackamas, OR

2000 Sketchbook Exhibit                                                 L and B Viewing Gallery, Portland, OR

1998 Faculty Exhibit                                                         Mt. Hood Community College, Troutdale, OR

1997 Thesis Show                                                             Watkins Gallery, Washington, D.C.

1996 Group Show                                                            Rock Creek Gallery, Washington, D.C.


PROJECTS
The Semi-Finalist                                                              Interviews with artists by me and columns by Benjamin Terrell at: 
                                                                                           
www.thesemi-finalist.com

2020 Closing the Distance (Juror)                                  PCC Sylvania student art exhibition, Portland, OR

2010 Distillation (Curator)                                              Gallery 114, Portland, OR
                                                                                           
Works by Ron Graff, Joseph Mann, Michelle Ross, and Phyllis Trowbridge  


PRESS AND PUBLICATIONS
Richard Speer's review of Casual Plans on Visual Art Source, October, 2023

New American Paintings, Pacific Coast issue #157 (juror: Dominic Molon), 2022

"Making New Spaces in 'Current Surroundings' Exhibition," by Arabelle May, 2022

Intimacy is a Two-Way Street: Thoughts on David Schell's intimate, intimate, " by Jason N. Le, 2021

"Remembering How to See (on the Paintings of David Schell)," by Benjamin Terrell, 2021

52 Critical Painters, 2019

Oregonian Pick by John Motley: “6 Must See Shows,”  February, 2015


Studio Visit, Volume 24, 2013

Oregon Home, March 2005
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Education
MFA: American University, Washington, D.C., 1997

BFA: The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL, 1992



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