David Pagel

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. 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.

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.

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 2005: POPulence at Blaffer Gallery, University of Houston 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