____DAVID ZUNG IS A MULTI-DISCIPLINARY ARTIST WORKING IN PAINTING, DRAWING, FILM AND PHOTOGRAPHY. HE STUDIED ARCHITECTURE AT PRINCETON AND WENT ON TO RENDER FOR STAR ARCHITECTS BEFORE TRANSITIONING INTO FINE ART AND FILM. HE WORKED IN THE FILM, ANIMATION AND VFX INDUSTRY FOR FORTY YEARS IN NEW YORK CITY WHILE CONTINUING HIS OWN PERSONAL STUDIO PRACTICE.___ AS AN ADJUNCT PROFESSOR DAVID TAUGHT STORYBOARDING, PAINTING, DRAWING, DESIGN AND THESIS ADVISING AT THE NYU TISCH SCHOOL OF THE ARTS TO UNDERGRADUATE FILMMAKERS AND GRADUATE COSTUME, SET AND LIGHTING DESIGNERS; UNDERGRADUATE ILLUSTRATION STUDENTS AT THE FASHION INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY (FIT) AND GRADUATE FILMMAKERS AT THE FEIRSTEIN GRADUATE SCHOOL OF CINEMA AT BROOKLYN COLLEGE FOR A TOTAL OF 21 YEARS. DAVID NOW LIVES IN NORTH CAROLINA WHERE HE GREW UP AND WHERE HE MAINTAINS AN AMICABLE BUT SOMEWHAT DISTANT RELATIONSHIP TO REALITY. IMAGINE THE KARATE KID MEETS WALTER BENJAMIN - IS DAVID ZUNG A POLYMATH OR DILETTANTE ( A WORD HE HAD TO LOOK UP HOW TO SPELL), SCHOLAR OR SCATTERED - YOU DECIDE. ___ ALT.__DAVID ZUNG IS A MULTI-DISCIPLINARY ARTIST WHO WAS ORIGINALLY TRAINED AS AN ARCHITECT AT PRINCETON UNIVERSITY AND WENT ON TO RENDER FOR STAR ARCHITECTS. HE TRANSITIONED TO WORKING IN THE FILM, ANIMATION, VFX IN NEW YORK CITY WHILE MAINTAINING HIS PERSONAL STUDIO PRACTICE AS A PAINTER, PHOTOGRAPHER AND FILMMAKER FOR FORTY YEARS.

DAVID IS CURRENTLY WORKING ON A BOOK BASED ON HIS PAINTING PRACTICE, WORK EXPERIENCE AND COLLEGE LECTURES CALLED “THINKING ABOUT LOOKING”. “THINKING ABOUT LOOKING” OBSERVES THE SHARED THREADS (THREADS THE NEEDLE) RUNNING THOUGH ART, ARCHITECTURE, FILM, PHOTOGRAPHY AND A LITTLE BIT OF SCIENCE IN ORDER TO CONNECT THE AUDIENCE TO THE CONTINUED HISTORY OF VISUAL STORYTELLING FROM RENAISSANCE PAINTING TO PRESENT DAY MEDIA. THE PEER REVIEW OF DAVID’S FIT COLLEGE COURSE STATED “THE SESSION WAS A FASCINATING EXCURSION INTO CRITICAL THINKING AND WAS ONE OF THE MOST REMARKABLE EXAMPLES OF GREAT TEACHING THAT I HAVE HAD THE PRIVILEGE TO WITNESS.'“