David Bordett
In residence:
Erie, Pennsylvania – June, 2021
Image Courtesy of the artist.
David Bordett grew up in an 18th century log home in Virginia’s Appalachian Mountains surrounded by his father’s eclectic collections of dubious provenance acquired at farm house estate sale including primitive instruments, tin toys, and a vertebrae bone from a wale allegedly hunted by the Essex, the ship fictionalized in the book Moby Dick. He received his BFA from the Department of Sculpture and Extended Media at VCU in 2014, and shortly thereafter moved to New Orleans to continue his practice. Following a flood in the Summer of 2017 that severely damaged the contents of his studio he moved to Brooklyn, New York where he has lived and worked since. His work invokes the visual language of road side attractions, regional music, and the roll of the journey in the collective imagination fused with the nuances of searching and longing, or witnessing something hidden in experience. Bordett has been included in exhibitions at the Ogden Museum of Southern Art, the Contemporary Art Center, and The Front Gallery in New Orleans, Monte Vista Projects in Los Angeles, Little Berlin in Philadelphia, and Orgy Park in Brooklyn. He anticipates receiving his MFA from the Sculpture Department at Yale in 2023.
EDUCATION:
Yale School of Art Sculpture Department, New Haven, CT
Masters of Fine Arts in Sculpture
Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA
Bachelors of Fine Arts in Sculpture
AWARDS/GRANTS/RESIDENCIES:
2021
Long Road Projects, Erie, PA
2019
Summer Studio Program Fellow @ Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA
2016
Dark Matter @ PORT, New Orleans, LA
SELECT EXHIBITIONS:
2021
250 + 1 @ O. Winston Link Museum, Roanoke, VA
2019
Please Be True @ Orgy Park, Brooklyn, NY
1:1 @ The Front, New Orleans, LA
Waist Deep @ Tempus Projects, Tampa, FL
Another Way Around @ FAB Gallery, Richmond, VA
The Wizard @ Monte Vista Projects, Los Angeles, CA
2018
Tango @ Little Berlin, Philadelphia, PA
The Patient Gothic Chisel @ The Front, New Orleans, LA
You Want A Piece of Me @ New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, LA
2018
Ephemera Obscura @ Contemporary Art Center, New Orleans, LA
2016
Louisiana Contemporary @ Ogden Museum of Southern Art, New Orleans, LA
Artist's Website: https://www.davidbordett.com/