Regarding the Artwork of Dave Martsolf

Events and Press (last 10 years)

2019 October - Participation in the Morristown NJ CraftMarket, Oct 18, 19, 20

2019 October - Certificate of Excellence, Artavita.com’s San Diego Contest.

2019 October-November - Participation in Gallery Z's "Art of the Macabre" Group Show.  Gallery Z, Lowell, MA.

2019 September April - Participation in Gallery Z's "Illustration in Black and White" Group Show.  Gallery Z, Lowell, MA.

2019 June-July - Participation in ArtsWorcester "About Face" Member's Show.  ArtsWorcester, Worcester, MA. 

2019 June-July - Participation in the Arts League of
Lowell "Out of the Ordinary" Group Show.  Arts League of Lowell, Lowell, MA.

2019 June - Participation in Gallery Z's "Abstractions" Group Show.  Gallery Z, Lowell, MA.

2019 April - Participation in Gallery Z's "Assemblages" Group Show.  Gallery Z, Lowell, MA.

2019 March - Paradise City Arts Festival, March 22-24, 2019 at the Royal Plaza Convention Center in Marlborough, MA.  

2019 February - Solo show at Gallery Z's Cafe Gallery, plus participation in Gallery Z's "All Things Red" Group Show.  Gallery Z, Lowell, MA.

2019 January - Solo show at the Parish Center for the Arts in Westford, MA.  Also participated in the "Fantasy Worlds and Mystical Beasts" group show at Gallery Z in Lowell, MA.

2018 -  Dave will have smaller works for sale in three galleries in Lowell, MA for the holiday season.  The galleries are the Arts League of Lowell, The Brush Art Gallery, and Gallery Z.

2018 -  "The Ecstasy" was included in Arts Worcester's "A Matter of Perspective" show at the Aurora Gallery in Worcester, MA.

2018 - Dave has been juried into the Paradise City Arts Festival to take place March 22-24, 2019.  See you there!

2018 - Martsolf received a Capsule Review in the May issue of Artscope magazine, and an interview in July with the Boston Voyager on-line newspaper. He also gave a 1-hour presentation for Methuen Community TV on his artwork that is still available in their website series "Artist in the Studio".

2018 - Martsolf had a solo show at Gallery Z in Lowell, MA and participated in many Lowell art shows, winning awards at several.  He also participated in the Los Angeles Center for Digital Art's Electron Salon show, January, 2018.

2018 - Martsolf was named Artist of the Month by the ArtList.com. 

2017 - Martsolf was been included in 4 online exhibitions in 2017. Details are on the Home page.

2016 - Dave Martsolf is now represented by an exclusive on-line gallery as one of eleven major contemporary artists.  You can view his work at the Vertex Art Gallery.

2015 - Martsolf works on "Topology 101" a large oil canvas that explores 

               the dual nature of surfaces in the universe.

2014 -  Martsolf creates a large wood sculpture titled "Intimacy".

2013 - Martsolf begins explorations in 3D space using wood art scuptures and construction models as guides for future large scale outdoor installations.

August 2012 - New England Collective III at Galatea Fine Art, Boston, MA.

May 2012 - Zine Show at LAP Gallery, Waltham, MA.

January 2012 - Unbridled Imagination Solo Show
Galatea Fine Art, 460B Harrison Ave., B-6, Boston, MA 02118

Reviewed by Artscope Magazine's Jan 5, 2012 E-mail Blast! publication

"When realism and surrealism collide, you get Dave Martsolf. He has the skills and trained hand to make his paintings graphic and true to life, which he pairs with his theoretical, conceptual imagination. It is not very often that we come across an artist so grounded yet so fanciful, all in the same instance.

Martsolf's work is fresh and original. He takes the everyday and ventures with it into the unknown, a journey that results in his astonishing art. Even some of his most far-fetched pieces posses an aura of sanity and organization, dispelling any notion of the irrational or unconscious typically associated with surrealism."

Also Reviewed by Artscope Magazine Jan-Feb 2012 Edition

Capsule Previews
Brian Goslow

Galatea Fine Art starts 2012 with three exhibitions intended to get you thinking. “David Martsolf: Unbridled Imagination” is a visual, watercolor-painted pendulum ride swinging between Realism and Surrealism. After making a name for himself as an artist to watch in the 1980s, Martsolf’s been a digital imagery pioneer for the personal computer generation — his work includes making screensavers for the Damsel Software Group. He’s escaped the vortex to return to the artistic style that had him labeled “an excellent draftsman, a master of arbitrary space and a colorist of more than ordinary competence.”