David Middlebrook earned varsity letters in basketball and trackand field at Albion, and he is best known as a two-time MIAA highjump champion and as an NCAA small-college champion. David achievedthe first of his league titles in 1963 when he cleared the bar at 6feet, 4 ½ inches, and he reached the top of the awards standin 1965 when he soared to 6 feet, 6 inches.
A sculptor who resides in Los Gatos, Calif., David has created manymonumental works in his more than 40 years as a professionalartist, but the past months have turned out to be“monumental” for him in other ways as well. Hisprofessional work was affirmed when he was selected to participatein the Personal Structures, Time, Space &Existence group exhibition of the 55th Venice Biennale,which runs through Nov. 24, 2013. The Biennale is considered one ofthe world’s most prestigious exhibitions for contemporaryart.
While in Europe for exhibitions of his work in Venice, Paris,and Bordeaux, David received a call informing him that San JoseState University’s Department of Art and Art History hasselected him and his best students to be featured in an exhibitionto celebrate the department’s 100th anniversary during the2013-14 academic year.
David and his wife, Lita Ruble, are the parents of Jason, Aaron,and Tess.
