Current

Partially Collapsed

Opening Reception    May 11th, 2024    4pm-6pm
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Show runs from -
April 20th, 2024 - July 13th, 2024
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​Artist - David Brewster

Statement

My paintings synthesize a 200-year-old tradition of American Scene Painting into a new breaking point of abstraction in order to make sense of an increasingly bizarre and incongruous synthetic landscape, and our evolving human relationship to it. I wield a wide range of abstract mark making into a language that provides structure and perspective to an overwhelming visual clutter. My interpretations of urban centers, suburbia, farmlands, and the people that occupy those spaces reflect a struggle to adapt and survive. I represent my subjects with neon hues and broad dynamic spray-painted strokes evocative of our digital age. I draw with colored masking tape which I retain or remove to achieve the sharp edges and piercing reflective lights of plastic, chrome and glass prevalent in our built environment and more recently, I’ve begun to manipulate paintings created on triple-ply museum board in a new way, literally tearing them apart with a razor to reveal fresh surfaces of clean paper.

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Biography

David Brewster (b. 1960 Baltimore) earned his MFA from the University of Pennsylvania in 1988, and has since been invited to paint, lecture, and exhibit throughout the United States, Europe and Asia. Brewster’s work has been the subject of over 25 solo gallery exhibitions, including “Structure and Perspective: David Brewster Explores Maryland’s Social Landscape” at the Maryland Center for History and Culture, Baltimore (2017-2019). He has been reviewed in Art in America, Art New England, Art Scope, The Philadelphia Inquirer, The Boston Globe and The Baltimore Sun. He’s represented in private and museum collections including the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archives, the Robert Hull Fleming Museum, Woodmere Art Museum, Berman Museum, the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, the Orton Foundation, Princeton University Art Museum, the Pennsylvania State Museum, the Wharton School of Business, the Johns Hopkins Carey Business School, Brown Advisory in Baltimore, MD, and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Bangkok, Thailand. He has received numerous awards including grants from the Pollock-Krasner Foundation and the Taconic Berkshire Foundation, as well as fellowships at the Ballinglen Arts and Klots foundations. He’s represented by Chase Young Gallery, Boston, MA; Gross McCleaf Gallery, Philadelphia, PA; and C. Grimaldis Gallery, Baltimore, MD and Mitchell Giddings Fine Arts, Brattleboro, VT. Read more about David Brewster on Wikipedia.

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