Education
Boston University, BFA, Painting
Rhode Island School of Design, Pre-college studies program
Awards and recognition
2006 Blanche E.
Coleman Award Competition, finalist
1993 Lefranc & Bourgois, Winsor Newton, Les Trophees de la Couleur,
France
1975-76 Ford Foundation, Educational Grant, Boston University, Boston,
MA
1975
Gold Medal, M. Grumbacher Artist’s Material Award, New York National
Scholastic Awards, New York, NY
1974-75 Boston
Globe Scholastics Art Competition, various
awards
Selected Solo Painting Exhibitions
2012 St. Botloph Club, Boston, MA
2010 Julie Heller Gallery, Provincetown, MA
2010 Whistler House Museum of Art, Lowell, MA
2007 Boston Society of Architects / AIA, Boston, MA
1994 American School of Paris, Paris France
1990 W.I.C.E. (Woman’s Institute of Continuing Education) Paris, France
1989 Kennedy Studios, Boston, MA
1988 Angelina’s (tea salon) Paris, France
1988 Jewish Community Center, Revere,MA
1988 White Cliff Estate, Plymouth, MA
1987 Galleria Chaillot, Paris, France
1987,88,89 French Library of Boston, Boston, MA
1986 The Copley Society of Boston, Boston, MA
1985 Marriott Hotel, Boston, MA
1985,86,87 Sky Club, Boston, MA
1983 La Loir Dans La Theier (tea salon), Paris, France
Selected Group Exhibitions
2013 St. Botolph
Club, Fellowship Exhibition
2013 Powers Gallery, Acton MA
2012 Claudia Stone Gallery, New York, NY
2012
Quidley & Company Fine Art, Boston, MA
2012 George
Billis Gallery, New York, NY
2010
Brickbottom Gallery, Somerville, MA
2008
Mazmanian Art Gallery, Framingham State College, Framingham, MA
2008 Allan Stone Gallery – Talent 2008, New York, NY
2008
Danforth Museum, Framingham MA, Juried Exhibition,
Curated by
Carole Anne Meehan, Curator at the Institute of
Contemporary Art, Boston
2007 Allan Stone Gallery – Talent 2007, New York, NY
2007
Powers Gallery, Acton, MA
2006 Boston University Art Gallery, Boston, MA
2006 Frances Roddy Competition - Concord Art Association,
Concord, MA,
Juried Show,
Juror:
Howard Yezerski
2005 – Present, The Julie Heller Gallery, Provincetown, MA
2005 South End Open Studio,
Boston, MA
2005 Redbrick Studio, Beverly, MA
1994 Espace BROTHER, Paris, France
1993 Cirque d'Hiver, Les Trophees de la Couleur (LEFRANC & BOURGEOIS,
WINSOR & NEWTON), Paris, France
1992 Grande Palais (Salon d'Automne), Paris, France
1990 Pre St. Gervais, France - Salon d'Expression Contemporain, Le Pre
St. Gervais, France
1982 10th district city hall (Juried salon exhibition) Paris, France
1980 Copley Society of Boston's "Boston Jubilee 350", Boston, MA
1975-79 Boston University Art Gallery, Boston, MA
1975 New York National Scholastic Awards, Union Carbide Building, New
York, NY
1974,75 Massachusetts Regional Scholastic Art Exhibition (sponsored by
the Boston Globe) Boston, MA
Selected Collections and commissions
PUBLIC
Boston Public Library, Prints & Drawings Collection, Boston, MA
United States of America, Federal Court House, Boston, MA
Portrait of Judge Richard Stearns
United States of America, Federal Court House, San Juan, PR
All judicial portraits of the U.S. District Court in Puerto Rico (31 portraits)
Wrentham District Court, Wrentham, MA, Portrait of Judge Warren Powers
CORPORATE
Union Oyster House (historical landmark), Boston, MA - 1995-1997 - painting series commission: to create a series of paintings representing the printer / publisher Isaiah Thomas and his connection to the American Revolutionary War as well as depicting history connected to the Union Oyster House
City Harvest, Inc., New York, NY
Lefranc & Bourgois, Winsor Newton, France
Law Offices of Kenyon & Kenyon, New York, NY
Morgan Stanley, New York, NY
Psion Co., London, England
Les Nouveaux Constructeurs, Paris, France - 1992 - lithograph commission: to create a lithograph edition representing the Cathedral d'Evry, the first cathedral built in France in 200 years, the lithographs were offered to the various parties involved by Les Nouveaux Constructeurs, including the architect, Mario Botta
Hotel Adagio, Sevres, France
Hotel Ibis, France
One if by land, Two if by sea, New York, NY
Private
Found in private collections throughout Europe, Asia, and the United States
Press and Publications
Interview by Michael Corbin, "DAVID WELLS ROTH: SPACE, LIGHT & SHADOW" with , "ArtBookGuy.com", April, 5, 2012
Framingham artist exhibits at Boston's St. Botolph
Club
Review
by Chris Bergeran, Gatehouse News Services,
(or
Article). February 27, 2012
Listed
in the Benezit Dictionary of Artists, Vol. 11, pg. 1434, Oxford University Press
Review by Kristine Lundblad, Gatehouse News Services,
Framingham artist mounts 'Places and Faces' show at the Whistler
(or
Article), June 3, 2010
Interview by Chris Bergeran, Metrowest Daily News,
Framingham artist completes series of judge portraits
(or
Article),
March 22, 2010
Drawing appears in Nathan Goldstein’s Figure Drawing, the Structure, Anatomy and Expressive Design of Human Form, 7th Edition, Pearson Prentice Hall, 2010
Review by Chris Bergeran, Metrowest Daily News, "Trio of artists exhibits at Framingham State", December 8, 2008
Interview by John Hilliard, Framingham Tab, "David Wells Roth's paintings capture the silent drama of color at play" (or Article), September 19, 2008
Metrowest Daily News,
“Anticipation: Artists and institutions to watch in 2007”,
December 31, 2006
June Wulff, The Boston
Globe, Sidekick “Scenes and the city”,
March, 2007
Review by Ron Fletcher, The Boston Globe,
“Walls of Logan’s Terminal C provide a way
station for art” - -
“Walls of Logan’s Terminal C provide a way
station for art”
July, 2006
Interview by Chris Bergeran, Metrowest Daily News, “A brush with the law”, May 28, 2006
Interview by Chris Bergeran, Metrowest Daily News, “A brush with passion”, September 15, 2005
News From the Boston University School for the Arts, Class notes, 1997
Susan Bickelhaupt and
Maureen Dezell, The Boston Globe, Names and Faces,
“Finishing Touches”, July 10, 1996
Figaroscope, Paris, Expositions, “David Wells Roth”, October 26, 1988
Robert Taylor, The Boston Globe, “Great Views”, June 12, 1987
Review by Louis Williams, Middlesex News,
“Sudbury artist, a master in the making”
June 27, 1985
Interview by Donald
Heinrich, Something ELSe,
“A foreign Palette - Two artists in
Paris”,
December 20, 1984
Review, The Middlesex News, “Sudbury artist exhibits in honor of Boston 350” July 1, 1980
The Boston Sunday Globe, "Scholastic art awards of The Boston Globe", February 9, 1975
Interview
by Lorelei Snyder, The Fence Viewer (Sudbury, MA),
"Washington
Stamp Board Will View Sudbury Student's Art",
1970
David
Wells Roth was born in Florida, grew up outside of Boston and
studied painting in Boston University under a Ford Foundation
Educational Scholarship. In 1980, after his studies he moved to New York
City to paint city scenes and urban life and then to Paris between 1982
and 1997 and bartered his paintings for his apartment.
While living in Paris he was involved in numerous group and solo
exhibitions both in Paris and Boston including solo exhibitions at the
French Library in Boston and The Copley Society and participated in many
group shows in Paris including the Grand Pallais and the Cirque d'Hiver.
In 1993, Roth received fourth place and the purchase prize in the
Lefranc & Bourgois, Winsor Newton, Les Trophees de la Couleur exhibition
and competition in Paris, out of 18,000 entrees.
Since returning to the states in 1997, he has participated in group
shows in the Allan Stone and DFN galleries in New York, and has had solo
exhibitions at the American Institute of Architects in Boston and the
Whistler House Museum in Lowell, Massachusetts, exhibiting his
cityscapes. He was a finalist in the Blanche E. Coleman Award
Competition. The Boston Public Library recently acquired several of his
drawings from figures and watercolors while living in France, for its
print and paper collections.
The Federal and State Courts in Massachusetts have commissioned Roth’s judicial portraits, and between 2007-2010 he completed a commission to paint the portraits of all 33 judges, past and present, of the United States Federal court of the district of Puerto Rico.