Contemporary Art Criticism

Pagel is a regular contributor to the Los Angeles Times

Los Angeles Times

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and has written nearly 500 articles since 1997. He serves as Chair of the Art Department at Claremont Graduate University

Claremont Graduate University

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 in Claremont

Claremont, California

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, California

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Pagel has written several books and essays about artists such as Jim Isermann and Irene Hardwicke Olivieri.

He was the recipient of an Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship in Contemporary Arts Criticism in 1990 and was a Macgeorge Fellow at the University of Melbourne, Australia in 2002.

Curatorial Activities

David Pagel has curated:

• Pieceable Kingdom at the Beacon Arts Building (2011)
• LA Now at the Las Vegas Art Museum (2009)
• Painting Design at Claremont Graduate University (2007)
• 702 Series: Sush Machida Gaikotsu at Las Vegas Art Museum (2007)
• POPulence at Blaffer Gallery, University of Houston (2005)
• Damaged Romanticism: A Mirror of Modern Emotion (with Terrie Sultan) for the Blaffer Gallery at the University of Houston (8/22/08-11/15/08) and the Grey Art Gallery at New York University (1/13/09-4/4/09)
• Electric Mud at the Blaffer (1/17/09-3/28/09)

Education

• M.A., Harvard University
  Harvard University
  Harvard University is a private Ivy League university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, established in 1636 by the Massachusetts legislature. Harvard is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States and the first corporation chartered in the country...
  
  , Art History
  Art history
  Art history has historically been understood as the academic study of objects of art in their historical development and stylistic contexts, i.e. genre, design, format, and style...
  
   1987
• B.A., Stanford University
  Stanford University
  The Leland Stanford Junior University, commonly referred to as Stanford University or Stanford, is a private research university on an campus located near Palo Alto, California. It is situated in the northwestern Santa Clara Valley on the San Francisco Peninsula, approximately northwest of San...
  
  , Modern Thought and Literature, with Honors and Distinction in the Humanities, 1985