Welcome back to ARTMATTERS: The Podcast for Artists

On this week’s episode I’m joined by David Ambrose.

David Ambrose was born in 1960 and lives and works in Bound Brook, New Jersey. He received his BA in Fine Arts from Muhlenberg College and his MFA in Painting from the University of Pennsylvania.

He has exhibited widely over the past four decades, including solo exhibitions at the New Jersey State Museum, where he was the subject of a mid-career retrospective, as well as Gold/Scopophilia in Montclair and Tibor de Nagy in New York. His work has also been included in group exhibitions at Pierogi and Kentler International Drawing Space in Brooklyn, among many others, and is held in public collections including the Library of Congress. Ambrose is the recipient of multiple fellowships from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts, most recently in 2022 to 2023. He has also taught at institutions including Parsons, Pratt, and the Fashion Institute of Technology.

I sat down with David in his New Jersey studio last month and we discussed the surface of a painting, building paintings, building objects, planning for abstraction, materials and pigments, damage and repair, crosshatching, carving, and the use of non-traditional tools. David Ambrose also explains why there’s no rush, how linear thinking has served him through the years, allowing for change, quality and beauty, daily practices, handling rejection, building  community and his new works on paper.

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host: Isaac Mann

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guest: David Ambrose

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Thank you as always to ARRN, the Detroit-based artist and instrumentalist, for the music.