DAVID BYRD artist

Anton Kern Gallery is pleased to announce its forthcoming exhibition: David Byrd, Montrose VA, 1958 – 1988. The exhibition centers around Byrd’s original manuscript, of the same title, chronicling his observations during his thirty-year employment in the psychiatric ward at the VA hospital in Montrose, NY. This handmade book was a labor of love, created by the artist during the reflective period of his later years. It serves as a crucial codex for understanding Byrd’s personal history, as well as his psychologically stirring oeuvre of paintings and works on paper. Select pages – with handwritten texts, sketches, and colored pencil drawings – will be displayed throughout the gallery in vitrines, accompanied by paintings, sketchbooks and other archival materials relating to this major body of work.