David Aylsworth

biography

works

David Aylsworth was born in Tiffin, Ohio in 1966, and lives and works in Houston. He received a BFA from Kent State University in 1989 and was a Core Artist-in-Residence at the Glassell School, Museum of Fine Arts, from 1989-1991. He is known for abstract painting that combine a playful language of evocative forms, textures and unusual colors. For the past several years, the work has become increasingly reductive, with shades of white dominating, and hard edge shapes edging out organic forms.

His work is currently on view in the group exhibition Working In The Abstract: Rethinking the Literal, Glassell School of Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (through November 2011). In April 2012, Inman Gallery will mount a solo exhibition with a major catalogue celebrating a 20-year relationship with the artist.

Aylsworth's paintings are included in the permanent collections of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, The Dallas Museum of Art, the El Paso Museum of Art, and the Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi. In 2001 the Galveston Art Center mounted a ten-year survey exhibition, which traveled throughout Texas and included a full color catalogue (available from the gallery). Recent exhibitions include David Aylsworth: A Mixture of Catholicism, Pasta, and Pornography at Inman Gallery in the fall of 2007, David Aylsworth: Fugue for Tinhorns Sounds like Frere Jacques, September 18 -November 2, 2008 at the Ellen Noël Art Museum, Odessa, Texas, and Is It the real turtle soup?, November - December 2008 at Holly Johnson Gallery, Dallas, Texas.