What I Cover

I write about art and artists, writers and writing, and about the communities that support and empower them, like art galleries, independent curators, and publishers. I tend to focus upon the formal practices evolving creative disciplines, but also about their lived experiences and world-views. I also sometimes write posts about my travels around the city, a sort of “we’re still alive and kicking” tribute to the New York way of life (“New York Diary”); extended musings on my own creative state of mind and related issues (“A Writer’s Letters”); and posts about past experiences as critically oriented memories in art viewing (“Retrospection”). I also have a news section into which I sometimes fold reviews and copious links (“The Desk Dispatch”).

My Background

My role as a writer about art and literature is a product of my parents’ lives and professional activity as art dealers. It also dovetails with a personal interest in the writing of fiction, and in deep literary interests crisscrossing stories, poetry, drama, criticism, oral history, and more–the full range of creative and critical interpretation that was both handed down to me and cultivated by my own book collecting interests. I previously wrote for a range of publications including Zingmagazine, PAJ, Flash Art, C magazine, and Frieze, and was early on a member of The International Association of Art Critics in 2003-04 as I am now again in 2025.

I was raised in New York City, attending The York Preparatory School and Bradford College in Bradford, MA, where I majored in Humanities and Literature. I currently live in the same home I grew up in, with my wife Michele (also a native New Yorker), a cat and a dog.

Contact Me

• Email: davidgibsonwriting@gmail.com