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DAVID SPALDING (2002)
Ghosts Among the Ruins: Urban Transformation
in Contemporary Chinese Art
David Spalding received a BA in classics and critical theory from Saint
Mary's College of California in 1994, and also studied at the Centre for Medieval
and Renaissance Studies, Keeble College, Oxford University. An active art
writer, his reviews, articles and interviews appear regularly in publications such
as Flash Art, Contemporary, Artweek and Art Asia Pacific and Art
Papers, where
he is also a contributing editor. He is the author of several catalogue
essays for exhibitions in China, France and the United States. Since graduating, he
has been teaching graduate level courses on contemporary art, critical theory
and writing at Mills College and CCA. Spalding's recent research has focused
on experimental Chinese art after 1979; this was also the subject of an
undergraduate course he taught at CCA in the Spring of 2003. During the summer of
2004, Spalding was invited to curate the Chinese component of "Rogue Nations:
Cuban and Chinese Artists," an exhibition at San Jose's MACLA, co-curated by
Anjee Helstrup (VC class of 2003) and Antonio Eligio (Tonel). In October 2004, he
will present a panel discussion entitled "Monuments and NoPlaces: The Past,
Present and Future of Land Art" featuring pioneering land artist Nancy Holt,
Matthew Coolidge of the Center for Land Use Interpretation, Stanford University
art historian Pamela Lee and Eugenie Tsai, curator of the upcoming Robert
Smithson Retrospective at MOCA in Los Angeles. The panel which will take place
within the CCA Graduate Studies and Wattis Institute Public Lecture Series.
Spalding is currently at work on "Ghosts in the Machine," an exhibition based on
his Visual Criticism thesis project, which is scheduled to open at SF
Camerawork Gallery in the fall of 2005. He plans to continue his curatorial, teaching
and critical writing practice while pursuing a Ph.D. in Modern Art History in
the coming years.
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