David Aaron Greenberg David Aaron Greenberg New York, NY David Aaron Greenberg is an American poet, songwriter, visual artist, curator and art critic. He is the co-author of Strange Messenger: The Work of Patti Smith (Andy Warhol Museum) and has written essays for numerous catalogues for artists including Donald Baechler and Roy Nachum. His critical writing has appeared in Parkett, the Fader, Frank 151, Whitehot Magazineand Art in America. Greenberg performed on bills with poet Allen Ginsberg at spaces like the Nuyorican Poets Café and the Poetry Project at St. Mark’s Church. His collections of poetry include the chapbooks Flesh and Astronomy, Feeling Gravity’s Pull (Soft Skull Press) and Gravity (aNYthing Press). His writing has appeared in various publications, including Long Shot, Rolling Stone and the Ralph Lauren Polo catalogue. As a singer and guitarist, he was the founder of the NYC indie rock band Pen Pal, which released the critically acclaimed album Best Boy in 1996 and toured extensively throughout the US in the late 1990s. In 1999, along with producer and composer David Sisko, he formed the NYC-based songwriting/production team Disco Pusher. He has co-written songs for various international recording artists, from the Jamaican reggae legend Toots Hibbert of Toots and the Maytals to the Brooklyn-born artist Sandflower. In the early 1990s he curated performance events at CB’s Gallery which featured Herbert Huncke, Taylor Mead, Tuli Kupferberg and Lee Ranaldo. As an independent curator he has presented exhibitions at Pat Hearn Gallery and numerous pop-up spaces in Chelsea. In 2003 he founded mad little gallery, a conceptual space for smaller-sized artworks. His mad little shows have featured work by Darren Bader, Melissa Brown, Jon DeCola, George Condo, Ryan McGinley and Dash Snow. During the late 2000s he co-curated Casual Disco, a monthly art and music salon in Chinatown which featured artists Brian Belott, Lance de los Reyes, Carlton DeWoody and Mordechai Rubinstein (AKA Mister Mort). Greenberg’s drawings and paintings have been exhibited in galleries in NYC. His portrait of Allen Ginsberg is in the permanent collection at Stanford University and his work is in various private collections, including those of Diego Cortez and John Cheim. Greenberg graduated from Rutgers University, Phi Beta Kappa. He lives in New York City and New Jersey. David Aaron Greenberg’s tracks TELL ME by David Aaron Greenberg published on 2015-12-20T20:56:01Z ALWAYS COOL by David Aaron Greenberg published on 2015-02-20T23:22:59Z I FEEL YOU by David Aaron Greenberg published on 2015-02-17T20:57:57Z STANDING IN THE HOOD by David Aaron Greenberg published on 2015-01-24T21:10:22Z
