In 2024 David was pleased to have been made a Signature Member of the California Art Club, to which he has belonged for many years. The Club was founded in 1909 and celebrates the traditional arts of painting and sculpture.

In 2022, Early Morning Vineyard (24” x 48”) appeared in the California Art Club’s 111th Annual Gold Medal Exhibition at the Bowers Museum in Santa Ana.

The painting, Mendocino Bay Window (24” x 18”), was part of Spring into Art, a juried exhibition and sale at the Huntington Library, Museum and Gardens in San Marino, California. The annual event is mounted by the San Marino League to raise funds for the scholarship program at the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena and the Japanese Gardens at the Huntington.

In 2021, the painting, Sky Light, was a finalist in the California Art Club’s virtual exhibition, Excellence in Traditional Fine Art: Moments of Joy. The 40 artists were selected by Kristin Hoerth, Editor-in-Chief of Southwest Art magazine.

The image was also included in an article on landscape painting in the September issue of American Art Collector magazine.

David”s painting, Sundown from the Malibu Hills (24” x 40”), Was selected in 2022 by the Huntington Beach Art Center in Huntington Beach, California for the show, Scapes and Scope: Visions of the Land, Sea and Urban Space.

The painting, Morning Over the Gulf (36” x 56”), received an Honorable Mention in the landscape category of the Art Renewal Center’s prestigious 14th annual International Salon competition.

The painting was also one of the 100 pieces selected for the live traveling version of the ARC Salon. The show opened at the European Museum of Modern Art (https://www.meam.es/en/) in Barcelona, Spain, December 2019 – February 2020 and became a virtual exhibition at Sotheby’s, NY, from July 17th – July 27th, 2020.

The mission of the Center is the revival of realism in the visual arts. The ARC received over 4,300 entries from 73 countries.

A couple of David's favorite "sea & skyscape" images can be found in this book of California coastal paintings.

David's painting,The Garden Chair, was juried into a California Art Club show, Treasures from the Bay Area: New Paintings by the California Art Club at the Holton Studio Gallery in Berkeley CA.

San Joaquin Symphony was part of the California Art Club’s Annual Gold Medal Show in 2020 and won the Art Lovers’ Choice Award for favorite landscape as voted by the viewers of the virtual exhibition.