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THBMichael David: The Archer's Plum IV
About Seller
77 Bleecker Street, C2-18
New York, NY 10012
United States
CITYarts, Inc. is a nonprofit public arts and education organization recreated in 1989 by Executive and Creative Director Tsipi Ben-Haim after its predecessor, Cityarts Workshop, closed down in 1988. With a new name and a new mission, Tsipi Ben-Haim wanted the voices of our youth to be heard. She cr...Read more
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About Auction
TimedJun 17, 2021 - Jun 23, 2021
32nd Annual Gala Art Auction benefiting CITYarts, Inc., an arts and education not for profit organization pairing youth with professional artists in the creation of public art locally in NY and throughout the world. CITYarts tsipi@cityarts.org
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Four color relief print, 1990, Pace Prints edition, 34/41, signed on recto
Image size: 9.5 x 12 in.
Paper size: 16.5 x 26 in.
Framed: 18 x 27 in.
Born Michael David Singer, David’s family relocated to Brooklyn from Reno, where he was raised. He attended SUNY Fredonia for one year and in 1976 received a B.F.A. from Parsons School of Design. David is classified as an abstract painter, best known for his use of the encaustic technique, which incorporates pigment with heated beeswax. He is also known for his works in mixed-media figure painting, photography and environmental sculpture. His work is included in the permanent public collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Guggenheim Museum and the Jewish Museum in New York, and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, among others. He is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, The Edward Albee Foundations, and The American Academy of Arts and Letters.
In Michael David's latest works, he continues to combine and extend the language of abstraction through his use of materiality and paint handling with his use of personal, political, and literary narrative and storytelling, aligning himself with some of today's greatest and most relevant practitioners of abstraction, Mark Bradford and Anselm Kiefer.
David's paintings actualize, through his materials and abstract handling, the virtues and complexity of what makes us most human; strength, vulnerability, fragility, compassion, loss. They embody the lessons learned from one's own mistakes and acceptance of self.
Top art critic Donald Kuspit has described David’s work in this manner:
Michael David may be the most innovative master of immediate surface since the Abstract Expressionists. He has acknowledged his debt to Abstract Expressionism, but he has transformed it. Where the Abstract Expressionist paintings of the forties and fifties seem like modern cave paintings, as their crude, unfocused, often meandering, turbulent painterliness suggests, David seeks to reinstate prehistory, turning the cave into a temple. His more concentrated, dense and contemplative paintings have the aura of post history. David’s abstract paintings renew immediacy; they reconstitute and strengthen, even apotheosize it. They raise it to a feverishly fresh intensity with their remarkable touch, indicating they are among the very best painterly abstractions made.
Through his masterful use of encaustic (developed over forty years), David is literally and metaphorically embedding his paintings with references to his own history; his love of music, cinema, popular culture, art and literature. Combining this with his use of color, his rich and simultaneously fearless improvisations, and a deliberate intimacy of handling, his works are the physical manifestations of his passion and refusal to compromise.
All great painters paint who they are and what they know. They communicate that resolution of self in the record of their passion. Intentionality left behind is the artist's experience and process through the making the of the painting. The insight or access into the artist's intention only adds another layer for the viewer in sharing that experience to explore and deepen the relationship to the work.
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Works can be retrieved the night of the Gala for winning bidders in attendance or from the CITYarts offices in NoHo for online bidders throughout NY. Shipping will otherwise be coordinated on a case by case basis for lots sold to bidders out of state, internationally, or for NY residents who require shipping, and the buyer agrees to cover these costs. Contact gala@cityarts.org for more information.
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