Derr attended the Art Students League in the 1970's studying life drawing under Gregory D'Allesio and Gutav Rehburger and graphics with Michael Ponce DeLeon. His passion for life drawing continued as a primary focus for nearly 10 years while he made a living as an artists model and freelance commercial artist.
Currently Derr heads up his own design agency, D2 Studios Inc., in the past he has been employed as Art and Creative Director's for New Jersey advertising agencies and has achieved national recognition for his designs. Commercial success has never dimmed, in fact, has brought into sharper focus, his love for fine arts, and his expression of deep personal imagery. This is influenced by his interest in archeology, primitive art, mythology, classical music, and dance. He works in Oil, Acrylic, Mixed Media, Digital Imaging, Photography and Music.
Derr has been included in exhibitions juried by Ivan Karp of the OK Harris Gallery, Holly Solomon, of the Holly Solomon Gallery, and by curators from the Guggenheim and NJ State Museums. He has exhibited throughout the United States and Europe. His works appear in corporate, government and private collections throughout the world.
In 2020 one of Derr's pieces will be included as part of the payload for a new Lunar Lander being developed by Carnegie Mellon Institute in conjunction with funding from Google.
Most recent awards include:
Adobe Digital Imaging Competition, Honorable Mention
ReFocus Now Comptetion, 1st Place
International Digital Mural Competition, 2nd place
David Derr joined Pixels.com Licensing on April 2nd, 2011.
