Introduction
Dave Greber (born October 2, 1982) is an American digital artist and installation artist known for his digital animations and Video installations. His work explores the relationship between the natural world, mysticism and contemporary modes of communication.
Career
Greber began exhibiting video installations and sculptures as a member of New Orleans–based art collective The Front in 2009. His work was featured in Prospect 1.5, part of the Prospect New Orleans triennial, curated by Dan Cameron. In historic French Quarter site, Madame Johns Legacy, he constructed a 4-channel video installation relating tarot card divination and the international television show Deal or No Deal. C24 Gallery's inaugural exhibition, "Double Crescent: Art from Istanbul and New Orleans,” featured an installation by Greber, curated by Prospect New Orleans founder Dan Cameron. The show included both emerging artists and established artists from New Orleans and Istanbul, in 9,000-square-foot space at 514 West 24th Street, Chelsea, NYC. Greber exhibited solo shows featuring video installations and objects with the Arthur Roger Gallery in New Orleans: Stilllives, Peekaboo, Still Brothy and 7000-Day Candles.
A single-channel piece by Greber was featured in Lorna Mills' Ways of Something, a collection of one-minute videos by 113 web-based artists compiled and curated by Mills and released in March 2015. It is a contemporary remake of John Berger’s BBC documentary Ways of Seeing (1972). The resulting piece was collected and featured as part of the Whitney Museum's exhibition of video work, Dreamlands: Immersive Cinema and Art, 1905–2016.
State of the Art, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art’s national survey of artists, featured Greber's large-scale video installations. The exhibit toured extensively around the southern United States following its inaugural exhibit in Bentonville, AK. His solo exhibition The Casebearer was presented at The Ogden Museum of Southern Art. Greber's art Stilllives II: Vignette was featured in an exhibition at the Minneapolis Institute of Art.
Greber was commissioned by the MTA Arts & Design to create Skyyys, a 52-channel video installation which played throughout the Fulton Center Transportation Hub, in New York City from July 2018 to March 2019. It won the Silver Apex award at the Digital Signage Expo in 2019, which recognizes achievement in the installation of digital displays and interactive technology.