David Davenport
Painter

Early in my artistic career, I worked as an Art Director at Doyle, Dane, Bernbach in NYC and received several add awards.  In the summer of 1974 I attended the Art Student League and rekindled my desire for painting.  I continued my painting and drawing studies at the NY Studio School in Paris under the direction of Elaine DeKooning.
From 1977-79 I was a Graduate Teaching Fellow in Painting at the University of Maryland with Painter/Art Historian Dr. David Driskell.  During that time, I was fortunate to have as my mentor and thesis advisor painter/sculptor Anne Truitt.  Following my MFA in Painting, I received the Skowhegan School of Painting Scholarship and the Yaddo Fellowship Awards.
           
Over the last 2 decades I have continued my career as a painter.  Presently I teach full time as a Graphich Design Instructor at Alamance Community College in the Advertising and Graphic Design Department.  I live and maintain a painting studio in Durham, NC with my lovely wife Carolyn and two children, Zack and Ellen.