The University of Louisville’s Hite Institute of Art + Design holds a work on paper, “Jean Genet Masturbating in Metteray Prison (London Broil), 1983, in its collection.
This piece is part of a series of works in which David altered found supermarket posters with overlaying images using synthetic polymer paint.
The University has also championed David’s work by holding a 2026 exhibition at the Cressman Center entitled MISSING: When East Village Artists Came to Main Street. An ode to a 1985 exhibit benefiting the Kentucky’s Child Victims’ Trust Fund, the exhibit was co-curated by Hite Institute of Art + Design Professors Jennifer Sichel and Chris Reitz who write:
“Dubbed “the new irascibles,” this group of artists defined New York’s new East Village avant-garde scene with a mix of graffiti, painterly expressionism, social commentary, and impassioned advocacy.
MISSING brings these artists back to Louisville’s Main Street for an exhibition of 1980s art alongside photographs and ephemera from the historic Missing Children Show.”
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