David Haxton

American | 1943

David Haxton is an American Postwar & Contemporary artist who was born in 1943. Numerous key galleries and museums such as Fridman Gallery have featured David Haxton's work in the past.

David Haxton in the news

David Haxton has been featured in articles for Village Voice and Washington City Paper. The most recent article is The Slasher written for Village Voice in May 2019.

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A minimalist composition of stacked colored rectangles against a textured white wall.

Sunlight on Orange, Red and White Canvases

By David Haxton

Past Exhibitions

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Fridman Gallery

New York | USA

Apr 14, 2019 - May 19, 2019

The Site of Film

KANAL – Centre Pompidou

Brussels | Belgium

May 05, 2018 - Jul 07, 2018

Flaming June VII (Flaming Creatures)

Gavlak Gallery, Los Angeles

Downtown Los Angeles | Los Angeles | California | USA

Jun 08, 2017 - Aug 05, 2017

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Articles

The photographer David Haxton conjures evocative, painterly realms from cut paper and studio work lights. With a show currently up at Fridman Gallery (169 Bowery, through May 19) we revisit a review of the now 75-year-old artist first published in 2009.

10 Exhibitions Opening This Week

MutualArt Jan 20, 2016

10 Exhibitions Opening This Week

10 Outstanding Exhibitions of 2015

MutualArt Dec 30, 2015

10 Outstanding Exhibitions of 2015

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Coverage

“ ..Haxton's careful recognition of light is seen as an essential poetic-perceptual force... ”
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Gavlak Gallery, Los Angeles

“ ..A dialog with the history of conceptual thinking in art is palpable in Haxton's works... ”
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Gavlak Gallery, Los Angeles

“ ..Haxton's works as a whole activate perception, exposing perception as pliable and malleable, a choice that we make at will... ”
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Gavlak Gallery, Los Angeles

“ ..Trained as a painter, Haxton began making films in 1969, interested in examining the nature of the medium from the perspective of a modernist painter – light, movement, and the formation of a three-dimensional... ”
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Fridman Gallery

“ ..Likewise, Haxton’s photographs from the 2000s – abstract tableaux created in empty studios with paper backdrops and scrims – are self-contained descriptions of the photographic space, uninhabited by anthropocentric... ”
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Fridman Gallery