David S. Rubin: Drawing as daily Ritual

October 2 to 21, 2021

David S. Rubin: Drawing As Daily Ritual

David S. Rubin has been exhibiting his automatic drawings since 2003, when he was invited to
participate in Drawing Conclusions: Work by Artist-Critics and Drawing Conclusions II: Work by
Artist-Critics, at New York Arts Gallery, New York. In 2005, he was in the five-person exhibition,
Cursive, at the Tenri Cultural Institute, New York and in 2006, he was represented in the
exhibition draw, paper, scissors at Domestic Setting, a contemporary art space in Los Angeles. In
2007, Rubin participated in “Cursive” Mixed Media Art Exchange Exhibition at Artist Commune,
Hong Kong. He has had solo exhibitions at Blue Star Contemporary Art Museum in San Antonio,
Texas (2007), Barrister’s Gallery, New Orleans (2010), High Wire Arts, San Antonio, (2012), the R
Gallery (2016), Dock Space Gallery, San Antonio (2017), and the California State University
Northridge Art Galleries (2021). Rubin has also participated in group exhibitions at Galeria Ortiz,
San Antonio (2007), Collins C. Diboll Art Gallery, Loyola University, New Orleans (2008), Bihl
Haus Arts, San Antonio (2008-16), Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center, San Antonio (2009), Feature,
Inc., New York (2010), Talento Bilingue de Houston (2011), E.V.A. Gallery, San Antonio (2014),
Cinnabar Gallery, San Antonio (2016), Gallery 20/20, San Antonio (2017), and the Bradbury Art
Museum at Arkansas State University (2018). Rubin's art is in the collections of the Ogden
Museum of Southern Art, New Orleans, the Bradbury Art Museum at Arkansas State University,
and in numerous private collections.

Rubin has been an active figure in the contemporary arts field for over forty years. Currently he
is a regular contributor to the online journal Visual Art Source. From 2006-2014 he served as The
Brown Foundation Curator of Contemporary Art at the San Antonio Museum of Art. From 2000-
2006, Rubin was Curator of Visual Arts at the Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans; from
1994-99, he was Curator of Twentieth Century Art at Phoenix Art Museum; from 1990-94 he
served as Associate Director/Chief Curator of Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art (now
MOCA Cleveland); prior positions include Director of the Freedman Gallery, Albright College,
Reading, PA; Director of Exhibitions, San Francisco Art Institute and Adjunct Curator, San
Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Director, Santa Monica College Art Gallery; Assistant Director,
Galleries of the Claremont Colleges and Assistant Professor of Art History, Scripps College,
Claremont, CA.

Since 1980, Rubin has been a member of the International Association of Art Critics. In 1996 he
served as U.S. Commissioner for the Cuenca Bienal of Painting in Ecuador. From 2001-2007, he
served as an international juror for the Florence Biennale.

Rubin holds an A.B. in Philosophy from the University of California, Los Angeles and an M.A. in
Art History from Harvard University. He was born June 18, 1949 in Los Angeles, California. He
was raised in the San Fernando Valley.

In May, 2017, Rubin returned to Los Angeles to continue his work as an independent curator,
writer, and artist.