David Meade Walker (1948-2012): A Retrospective
a RETROSPECTIVE of work by david meade walker in gallery 1 @ dvaa
Exhibition Runs: January 8th - January 24th, 2020
Public Opening reception:
Sunday, January 10th, 2021 2:45pm on Zoom
About the exhibition:
Da Vinci Art Alliance is proud to host a retrospective of work by late artist David Meade Walker in Gallery 1 from January 8th-24th, 2021. Organized by David Meade Walker’s sister, Sharon Walker Eisenhour, this collection of work surveys the life and mediums that defined the artist. David Meade Walker (1948-2012): A Retrospective will be on view physically at Da Vinci Art Alliance by appointment and as a recorded video tour on the Da Vinci Art Alliance website.
David Meade Walker died in 2012 after being diagnosed with AIDS in 1981. This retrospective exhibition pays tribute to the arc of his personal and artistic life by showcasing different periods of his work. Comprised of landscapes, figure drawings, and portraits from his college years through his move to San Francisco, this exhibition documents the changes in his artistic styles in concurrence with the uncertainty surrounding his health. Always finding inspiration in the simplicity of country life, David’s Meade Walker created intimate portraits that document people he met and places he travelled. Reflecting on the life and work of David Meade Walker illuminates the effects of uncertainty and offers a glance through the compassionate gaze through which he viewed the world.
ABOUT THE artist:
David Meade Walker was born in Lancaster, PA in 1948. After graduating from Indiana University of Pennsylvania, David refused the draft for the Vietnam war and did alternative service at a church conference center in Sharon, CT, and a hospital in Providence, RI. He moved to San Francisco in 1978, and from 1979 to the end of his life, lived in an apartment on Page Street in Haight-Ashbury. He died September 12, 2012, at the Zen Hospice, at the other end of Page Street.
