About The Artist...

David Verba has been a working artist and art educator all his life, and holds a diploma from Cooper School of Art, a Bachelor of Fine Art degree from the Cleveland Institute of Art, and a Master of Fine Art degree from Kent State University. In addition, he earned a Certificate of Art for grades K-12 from Cleveland State University.

David lived, taught and exhibited in Japan for over six years, and has had eleven one-person shows in various Japanese cities. He has also exhibited in Northeast Ohio and is represented in the permanent collections the National Art Museum of Lithuania, the Fukuoka City Museum (Japan), Cleveland State University Collection and the National City Bank Collection (Cleveland, OH).

David currently resides in Suquamish, WA, located on North Kitsap peninsula, 13 miles NW of Seattle, across Puget Sound.

Permanent collections

 
The National Museum of Art, Vilnius, Lithuania
    Osaka Sunset mixed media
    Satori mixed media
    Untitled mixed media
 
Fukuoka City Museum, Fukuoka, Japan
 
    Why? pastel
    Memory of Tokyo pastel
 
National City Bank, Cleveland, OH
    Mosaic pastel
 
Cleveland State University, Cleveland, OH
    Untitled mixed media

Exhibitions

  2004 Group Exhibit [Delight Hamilton Gallery, Seattle,WA]
      Pastel, mixed media, Ink drawing.
  2003 David Verba/Martha Dunham Exhibition [Delight Hamilton Gallery, Seattle, WA]
      Pastel, mixed media.
  1997 David Verba:Recent Work [Gallery Cocteau, Tokyo]
      Drawing, monoprints, prints, mixed media; invitational.
    Drawn Together [The Cleveland Institute of Art]
      Drawing award for "Why Does That Make You Nervous?", mixed media. Juried invitational
  1996 Modular Investigations [Design Studio, Cleveland Heights, Ohio]
      Drawings, mixed media
  1995 People's Art Show [Cleveland State University]
      Mixed media, painting; Newspaper article,"The Vindicator"
  1994 O-Bon Matsuri [Lakeland Community College, Mento, Ohio]
      Paintings, monoprints, pastels; Newspaper articles: Cleveland Plain Dealer and Akron Beacon Journal
  1993 David Verba Exhibition [Gould Gallery/Studio, Cleveland]
      Mixed media, monoprints
    Inner Voices [Notre Dame College of Ohio]
      Mixed media, monoprints, invitational; Newspaper article: Cleveland Plain Dealer; 1993 Judged 70th Annual Student Exhibition, Notre Dame College of Ohio
  1991 David Verba Exhibition [Osaka College of Art, Osaka, Japan]
      pastel, mixed media
    David Verba Exhibition [Toko Gallery, Fukuoka, Japan]
      acrylic, pastel, mixed media
  1990 David Verba Exhibition [Osaka Museum of Contemporary Art, Osaka, Japan]
      mixed media, pastel, acrylic
  1989 Faculty and Selected Student Works of
Cuyahoga Community College
[National City Bank, Cleveland Ohio]
      Mosaic, pastel. Invitational.
  1988 The Carnival Season [Fukuoka City Museum, Fukuoka, Japan]
      pastel, acrylic, mixed media
    The Evening Hours [The E and Y Gallery, Fukuoka, Japan]
      pastels, mixed media; Fukuoka Magazine
    Diary of Nostalgia [The E and Y Gallery, Fukuoka, Japan]
      pastels, mixed media. Newspaper review: Nishinihon
    Slip Into the Interior [The E and Y Gallery, Fukuoka, Japan]
      pastels
  1987 Memory of Tokyo [The Area Deux Gallery, Fukuoka, Japan]
      pastels
    The Last Supper [Yamamoto Bunpodo Gallery, Fukuoka, Japan]
      pastel, mixed media, acrylic
    David Verba Recent Works [The Area Deux Gallery, Fukuoka, Japan]
      pastel, acrylic, mixed media. Review article: Fukuoka Magazine.