David Novros was born in Los Angeles,
California. He studied fine arts at the
University of California and shortly after
graduating in 1963, left on an overseas
trip to Europe. He returned to the United
States in 1964 and moved to New York.
In 1966 he had his first solo exhibition
at the Park Place Gallery, New York City.
During the late 1960s and early 1970s, he
exhibited regularly with Bykert Gallery,
New York, and also participated in a
number of significant group exhibitions,
including Systemic Painting at the
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New
York (1966); A Romantic Minimalism at the
Institute of Contemporary Art, University
of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia (1967); and
Modular Painting at the Albright-Knox
Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York (1970).
Since 1970 Novros’ main interest has been
in fresco painting. That year artist Donald
Judd commissioned Novros to paint a
huge fresco for his New York studio,
and a number of fresco commissions
followed, notably for the offices of the
United Gas Pipeline Company in Houston,
Texas (1975); for the lobby of the Gooch
Auditorium at the University of Texas
Health Science Center Dallas, Texas (1977);
the Newark Pennsylvania Station (1983-84);
and the Old Federal Court House, Miami,
Florida (1984). Novros lives in New York
and works on architectural commissions
throughout the United States.
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