{{Short description|American art critic}} {{for|the Michigan politician|Dave Pagel (politician)}} {{BLP refimprove|date=October 2021}} {{Use American English|date=January 2023}} {{Use mdy dates|date=January 2023}} {{Infobox person | name = David Pagel | occupation = {{Hlist|Art critic|educator|curator}} | employer = Claremont Graduate University | alma_mater = {{Plainlist| * Stanford University (BA) * Harvard University (MA) }} | awards = {{Plainlist| * Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship in Contemporary Arts Criticism (1990) * Macgeorge Fellowship, University of Melbourne (2002) }} }} '''David Pagel''' is an American art critic, educator, and curator.
==Contemporary art criticism== Since 1991, Pagel has been a regular contributor to the ''Los Angeles Times.''<ref>[http://8.12.42.31/writers/david-pagel] {{Dead link|date=July 2019|bot=InternetArchiveBot|fix-attempted=yes}}</ref> He is a professor of art theory and history at Claremont Graduate University, where he has taught in the art department since 1994. He is also an adjunct curator at the Parrish Art Museum in Water Mill, New York.
Pagel has written numerous essays for exhibition catalogs by such artists as Jim Isermann, Rodney Carswell, Roy Dowell, David Klamen, Michael Reafsnyder, Robert Zakanitch, Tim Bavington, Sush Machida, Leslie Love Stone, Ron Nagle, Elizabeth Patterson, Asad Faulwell, Wendell Gladstone, and Irene Hardwicke Olivieri.<ref name="goodreads1">{{Cite web|url=http://www.goodreads.com/author/list/489429.David_Pagel|title = Books by David Pagel (Author of Three Fragments of a Lost Tale)|website=Goodreads.com}}</ref>
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 in Australia in 2002.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.highfive.cwtv.com/ |title=Official Site of the CW Network | CW Television Shows | CW TV |access-date=July 19, 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111130060257/http://highfive.cwtv.com/ |archive-date=November 30, 2011 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
==Curatorial activities== * 2008, 2009: ''Damaged Romanticism: A Mirror of Modern Emotion'' (with Terrie Sultan) for the Blaffer Gallery at the University of Houston and the Grey Art Gallery at New York University * 2009: ''Electric Mud'' at the Blaffer<ref name="cgu.edu">{{cite web |url=http://www.cgu.edu/pages/5820.asp |title=Art Faculty David Pagel |accessdate=July 19, 2010 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20100527151143/http://www.cgu.edu/pages/5820.asp |archive-date=May 27, 2010 }}</ref> * 2005: ''POPulence'' at Blaffer Gallery, University of Houston<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.aaavegas.com/art/las-vegas-art-museum-presents-la-now-organized-by-david-pagel/2008/11/29 |title=Las Vegas Art Museum Presents L.A. Now Organized by David Pagel | AccessVegas.com Las Vegas News |access-date=July 19, 2010 |archive-date=July 18, 2012 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120718223735/http://www.aaavegas.com/art/las-vegas-art-museum-presents-la-now-organized-by-david-pagel/2008/11/29 |url-status=dead }}</ref> * 2007: ''702 Series: Sush Machida Gaikotsu'' at Las Vegas Art Museum * 2007: ''Painting Design'' at Claremont Graduate University * 2009: ''LA Now'' at the Las Vegas Art Museum * 2010: ''Underground Pop'' at the Parrish Art Museum * 2011: ''Pieceable Kingdom'' at the Beacon Arts Building * 2016: ''Unfinished Business'' at the Parrish Art Museum
==Education== * B.A., Stanford University, Modern Thought and Literature, with Honors and Distinction in the Humanities, 1985<ref name="cgu.edu"/> * M.A., Harvard University, Art History, 1987
==Bibliography== * ''Darren Waterston: Representing The Invisible'' by Dave Hickey, David Pagel * ''Irene Hardwicke Olivieri: Paintings'' by David Pagel * ''Plane/Structures'' by David Pagel * ''Fifteen: A Fifteen-Year Survey of Jim Isermann's Work'' by David Pagel * ''The Smiths'' (Seton Smith, Kiki Smith and Tony Smith) by Gilbert Brownstone, Eleanor Heartney and David Pagel * ''Postmark: An Abstract Effect'' by Louis Grachos and David Pagel<ref name="goodreads1"/> * ''The Cowboys Stadium: Art + Architecture'' by David Dillon and David Pagel<ref>{{cite web|title=David Pagel|website=Barnes & Noble|url=http://www.barnesandnoble.com/s/david-pagel?store=book|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120805145957/http://www.barnesandnoble.com/s/david-pagel?store=book|archive-date=August 5, 2012|url-status=dead}}</ref>
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