A veteran of the comic book, rock poster, gallery, bookstore, and even gaming worlds, DWITT might just be the most ubiquitous artist whose name you’ve never learned… until now. Under the influence of varying quantities of caffeine, endorphins, canned beer, and Slayer albums, David Witt is a man with the stamina to create 30 flyers in 30 days for the (soon-to-be) legendary Triple Rock Social Club in Minneapolis, MN, armed with nothing more than his vivid imagination and well-honed talent. His visceral images of ghouls and demons, busty dames and booze-soaked revelries, George W. Bush and Anthony Bourdain, are instantly recognizable_each emphatic line positively thrums and pulses, every one the embodiment of Witt’s wide-ranging inspirations and passions.
A founding member of the Squad 19 Design Collective and the Back Alley Gallery, Witt comments that “making it work as a professional has involved taking advantage of every opportunity and lucky break_there’s never been a plan, just a lot of drawing.” Rather than just this modest scraping by, however, he strives to make every project his best, often with spectacular results.Witt’s illustrations, paintings, and limited edition screen prints have been exhibited around the globe and reproduced in books and publications including The Art of Modern Rock, I Want Your Skull, German collective Bongout’s anthologies, and the series of graphic novels he’s illustrated for Lerner Publishing. His work can also be rocked-out to as the visual accompaniment to so many amateur and virtuoso living-room solos played in Guitar Hero II and found plastered across tee shirts extolling rowdy bands and rowdier holidays (Witt is, after all, a founder of International Canned Beer Month, celebrated each August). Finally, when at a loss to find any DWITT in your life, you can always simply look around: his art is most at home in the world when stapled to lamp posts or taped to the bathroom doors of dive bars across this great land. That’s right, the name’s David Witt_D-W-I-T-T, for those of you carving it into your desktops.
EXHIBITIONS ------------------------------
Participant in the twice yearly St. Paul Art Crawl 2000 - present
2009 -----------------------------------
'Bitter: A Post Valentines Day Break Up show' (group) Back Alley Gallery, St. Paul, MN Feb
21-22, 2009
2008 -----------------------------------------------
"The Art Of Musical Maintenance 5" (group show) The Goodfoot, Portland, OR - Dec 4th - Jan 26th, 2009
"Scene : The Gigposter Group show" (group show) Carmichael Lynch, Minneapolis, MN - Dec 4th - Jan 4th, 2009
"Screenprinting 102" (group show) 52.5 Records, Charleston, SC - Dec 5th - Jan 2009
"This B.U.D.'s For You : Custom Toy Show" (group show) Hero Design Studio & Boutique, Buffalo, NY - Oct 24th - Dec 23rd
"No Easy Explanation" (solo show) First Amendment Arts, Minneapolis, MN - Sept 27th - Oct 26th
"Toys in the Attic" (group show) Gallery 122, Minneapolis, MN Sept 19th - Oct 31st
"Gig!" (group show) 52.5 Records, Charleston, SC - Sept 7th - Oct 30th
"Poster
Exhibition" (group) Oya Music Festival, Oslo, Norway Aug 5th - Aug 9th
"The Sword & Gnome Show" (group show) Back Alley Gallery, St.Paul, MN - August 1st - Aug 17th
"Beans and Screens" (group show) Mugshots Coffeehouse and Cafe. Philadelphia , PA - June 5th - July
"Sweetness & Light" (solo show) Java J's, Minneapolis, MN - March 21st - April
2007 --------------------------------------------
"Screenprinting 101" (group show) 52.5 Records, Charleston, SC - Nov 30th - Dec 31st
"Yinz Got Posters" (group show) Artist Image Resource, Pittsburgh, PA - Sept 8th, - Oct 8th
"Plaster The Town" (group show) The Soap Factory, Minneapolis, MN - June 30th - Aug 12th
"Beyond Recognition" (group show) First Amendment Arts, Minneapolis, MN - March 31st - April 30th
"DWITT Poster Retrospective" (solo show) Back Alley Gallery, St.Paul, MN - Jan 12th - Feb 18th
2006 ----------------------------------------------
"The Skull Show" (curator - group show) Back Alley Gallery, St. Paul, MN - May 6th - May 28th
"Cheesecake Cover" (group show) Commerce Gallery, Wichita, KS - April 29th - May 6th
"Is This Art or Is This Punk II" Rudies Coffeehouse, St.Paul, MN - Feb 4th
"Rise Of The Gumbells" (solo show) Back Alley Gallery, St.Paul, MN - Jan 27th - Feb 26th
"Graphic Noise" (group show) Minneapolis College of Art and Design, Minneapolis, MN - Jan 13th - Feb 19th
2005 ----------------------------------------------
"Plaster The Town II" (curator - group show) Back Alley Gallery, St.Paul, MN - Jan 7th- Jan 30th
2004 ----------------------------------------------
"Sugarpants : McPherson, Kozik, DWITT" (group show) Chindogu Gallery, Oklahoma City, OK - May - June
"Plaster The Town" (curator - group show) Back Allery Gallery, St. Paul, MN - Jan 2nd - Jan 31st
PUBLICATIONS -----------------------------