Dave Eassa is a artist and activist living and working in Baltimore. He received his BFA in Painting with a concentration in Printmaking from the Maryland Institute College of Art in 2013. Recent solo and two person exhibitions include “The Road to Rio” at Little Berlin with Platform Gallery and “WIDE EYED” with Nicole Dyer at Savery Gallery, both in Philadelphia, PA. He has shown nationally and internationally in exhibitions most notably at Signal (Brooklyn, NY), LVL3 (Chicago, IL), SessionSpace (Oakland, CA.), Vox Populi (Philadelphia, PA.), Crosstown Arts (Memphis, TN.), Sophiajacob (Baltimore, MD.), Artisphere (Roslyn, VA.), Marianne Boesky Gallery (New York, NY.), artSTRAND (Provincetown, MA), Reh Kunst (Berlin, Germany), Current Space (Baltimore, MD.), and Casa das Artes Criação Ambiente Utopias (Sao Tome, Sao Tome and Principe). His work has been published in Alt Esc., New American Paintings No. 112, Studio Visit Magazine Volume 25, and The Pinch Journal. In 2014 he was awarded an Individual Artist Grant in Sculpture from the Maryland State Arts Council and is currently a Baltimore Community Fellow with the Open Society Institute through 2017.
Eassa is the founder and director of Free Space, an artist run organization, which brings arts classes to incarcerated individuals within the Maryland prison system. The weekly classes, along with the Visiting Artist Program, exposes individuals to ideas, time, materials, and skills that help to build confidence and instill passion in these individuals. Free Space brings programming to the Maryland Correctional Institution in Jessup, the Maryland Correctional Institution for Women, and Dorsey Run Correctional Facility. Free Space collaborates and works with Baltimore Youth Arts, under the name The Blank Page Project. Free Space has received support from the Maryland State Arts Council, the Baltimore Office of Promotion and the Arts, The Gutierrez Memorial Fund, and the Contemporary.
Eassa is the founder and director of Free Space, an artist run organization, which brings arts classes to incarcerated individuals within the Maryland prison system. The weekly classes, along with the Visiting Artist Program, exposes individuals to ideas, time, materials, and skills that help to build confidence and instill passion in these individuals. Free Space brings programming to the Maryland Correctional Institution in Jessup, the Maryland Correctional Institution for Women, and Dorsey Run Correctional Facility. Free Space collaborates and works with Baltimore Youth Arts, under the name The Blank Page Project. Free Space has received support from the Maryland State Arts Council, the Baltimore Office of Promotion and the Arts, The Gutierrez Memorial Fund, and the Contemporary.
