David Clayton James Gassaway

David Clayton James Gassaway was born in the town of Mansfield, Ohio, in July of 1971. He attended Oberlin College from the fall of 1988 until that of 1992, where he focused his studies, marginally, around the disciplines of English literature and theatre. Throughout, he continued to make visual art, an obsessive pastime he had followed in earnest since childhood. Primarily a draughtsman, he first supplied illustrations for, and later edited, an underground campus humor magazine.

Since the completion of his undergraduate endeavors, David has assiduously avoided a career of any kind, including one within the rubric of fine and applied arts. In addition to a variety of trivial, and at times bizarre, day jobs, David has sporadically continued his involvement with the theatre, developed a penchant for travel to distant lands, married and separated (and yearns, still, for a divorce), had original sequential art published as far away as Iceland, produced an illustrated zine, “the Slow, Mean Parade,” and has hung fine artworks in better coffeehouses and galleries in Brooklyn and Manhattan. His work is currently on display at the Subculture Gallery on Broome Street in Manhattan.

David continues to work in numerous media, and encourages children to do the same in his capacity as a freelance teacher of the arts within the elementary school system of the City of New York.