Famous American Artist David Herbert was born on 16th of July 1977. David Herbert is an American sculptor. He remakes cultural icons such as Mickey Mouse, Superman and a VHS cassette.
David Herbert was born in Seattle, Washington. He gained a B.F.A. from the Cornish College of the Arts in Seattle and an M.F.A. from Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond. He worked initially with video, before changing to sculpture.
One of the highlights of the group show Scarecrow at the Postmasters Gallery in New York in July 2006, was Herbert's VHS, a giant replica of a videocassete of 2001: A Space Odyssey. The work, made in 2005 from foam, plexiglass and latex paint, measures 50" × 12" × 96" (127 × 30 × 244 cm).
His pencil on paper drawing Screwj was one of the artworks in an auction by The New Yorker in 2009 to raise funds for the Friends of the High Line, who aid an elevated railway along the West Side of Manhattan. In December 2009, Don't Flee the Artmarket was a group show at the Postmasters Gallery of nearly 300 works, one of the "quirky highlights" being Herbert's portraits in graphite of a sad lost R2-D2 and C-3PO. David Herbert lives and works in New York.