David Carlson
| David Carlson | |
|---|---|
| Born | 16 June, 1956 |
| 🏳️ Nationality | American |
| 💼 Occupation | |
| Known for | Painting, Video Art |
| 🌐 Website | http//:www.davidcarlsonart.com |
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Education[edit]
Carlson attended Murray State University in Murray, Kentucky where he studied with painter Luke Oas and Art Historian William Lew. He completed a Bachelor of Fine Arts in 1979. He apprenticed in the atelier of Gregory Gillespie in Amherst, MA 1979-1980. Afterwards he enrolled at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst to study with Leonel Gongora and John Grillo. He completed the Masters of Fine Arts from UMASS in 1984.
Work[edit]
Painting[edit]
As an artist and abstract painter his works are considered ‘in the words’ of Kristen Hileman, curator of contemporary art at the Baltimore Museum of Art, a painter’s painter. In his paintings, the tension between opposing paradigms of structure and change is continually challenging him to look for different ways to understand the question, “What is the nature of reality?” Using abstraction, his paintings have an undertone of geometry. The geometric shapes only help to emphasize the different uses and qualities of paint. [1] The aesthetic includes a painterly approach, precision handling and an underlying sense of design through collision, tension and opposition. Carlson also strips out the conceptual and symbolic ideas for a more material message. [2] The painting’s layered surface include heavy texture, scraped areas, fresh paint and milky veils, which allude to the formation or destruction of random sequence. Without having specific objects or trappings of identifiable ‘real’ images, the paintings cross over perceptible boundaries locked to a specific meaning. The act of painting becomes the experience or ‘reality’ for the basis of the work. By combining abstract painting with concepts rooted in Taoist and Buddhist philosophy David has been constructing contemporary works that directly express the ever changing quality of experience, time, and place.
Video Art[edit]
Carlson’s digital video works are in various collections including; The Ralph and Susan Brennan Collection, New Orleans, LA, and the Embassy of Finland, permanent collection, Washington, DC. Most of his videos have germinated from collaborations with other artists and composers. Although his videos embrace a much larger spectrum of content, the main focus of the work uses the element of water as a thematic base to explore the diverse metaphors relating to the element. He sees this media as an extension of his creative vocabulary that allows for the exploration of movement, time and place.
Through video, David isolate water from its natural surroundings and place it into circumstance that opens the audience to a state of receptivity and thought not normally associated with water. Images form a bridge between the consciousness of the water and the consciousness of the viewer. The water is uncontrolled except for compositional placement and a few color and time shifts. Improvising, to isolate, as to see the quiddity of the water within the space is the objective of David’s video work.
notable solo exhibitions[edit]
- 2013: “Bhutan”, Chroma Projects, Charlottesville, VA ‘Formation of Being’, multimedia installation, Arlington Arts Center, Arlington VA.
- 2012: Video Selections, Artisphere, Arlington, VA
- 2011: ‘fluxus language - taoist geometry’, two person show with Cecil Touchon, Cohn Drennan Contemporary, Dallas, TX
- 2007: VIAP Galerie, Heerlen, Netherlands
- 2004: New Works, District Fine Arts, WDC
- 2003: An Exhibition of Works, District West Fine Arts, Leesburg, VA.
- 2001: Time Meditations, Korean Embassy Cultural Service, WDC.
- 1996: New Works, Yunnan Art Institure, Kunming, P.R.C.
- 1995: Infinite Interior, Anton Gallery, WDC.
- 1993: The Pond, Courthouse Place, Arlington, VA.
- 1991: The Ritual of Passage, Anton Gallery, WDC.
- 1990: Exposed Shadows, Anton Gallery, WDC.
Cultural exchanged and festivals[edit]
The Time of Water, TMTTR, Musee Des Tapisseries, Aix en Provence, France. Source Festival, The Creative Community Foundation, WDC. ‘The V World Water Forum’, Tutun Deposu, Istanbul, Turkey. 'Firewave', collaboration with PiT Brussel and Ashraf Fouad, Arlington Arts Center, Arlington, VA. 'Take Me to the River', Wichita Falls Museum of Art, Wichita Falls, Texas. International Contemporary Festival 'Process as Space', Balchik, Bulgaria. 'Take Me to the River' Cairo, Egypt. 'Cultural Exchange' Academy of Art, Tashkent, Uzbekistan. 'Arlington Meets Aachen' Aachen, Germany. 'Continental Drift' West Africa - Washington, Wash DC. Asilah Art Festival, Asilah, Morocco. Most Group, Alma Ata, Kazakhstan.
work in collections[edit]
- The Ralph and Susan Brennan Collection, New Orleans
- Embassy of Finland permanent collection, Washington D.C.
- Marymount University
- Balchik Art Museum, Balchik, Bulgaria
- D.C. Commission on the Arts
- Asilah Foundation
- University of Virginia, Health Professional Center
Additional Reading[edit]
“While the poets were above all interested in the fluid and fugitive aspects of Nature, others desired, by slogging away with a hatchet and pickax, to discover the interior structure of Nature and the relationship between the separate morsels. The spirit of our friend Nature dissolved in their hands, leaving nothing but throbbing or dead parts.” ― Novalis[3] Novalis: Philosophical Writings
Publications and Reviews[edit]
2012
- Beltway Poetry Quarterly, Volume 13, Number 2, Spring
- Mario Escobar poet (image-Space Between Us).
- Beltway Poetry Quarterly, Volume 13, Number 2, Spring 2012
- Niki Herd poet (image-Ambient Chaos).
- L’Artiste, No.3, January 2012, (image-video proj. WaterWeaving)
2011
- Studio Visit Magazine (volume 13), Juror: Beth Venn, Curator of Modern and Contemporary *Art and Senior Curator ofAmerican Art at the Newark Museum
- Dallas Modern, Todd Camplin, fluxus language/taoist geometry, Web archive.
2008
- Jessica Dawson, Galleries, Washington Post, 1-18-08
2006
- Denise Alexander, Stokes of Genius, MU Today, Marymount Univ. Arlington, VA
1996
- Li Yue Chun, An American Artist's Impression of Yunnan,Yunnan Daily.
- Combine Different Cultures in One Way, Chuncheng Wanbao, Kunming, China.
1995
- Martha McWilliams, Past as Prologue, Washington City Paper, April 14-20.
- Robert MacMillan, Show of Incredible Scale, Alexandria Gazette Packet, February 16, 1995.
1994
- Anchovies: Not Just for Pizzas Anymore, Sun Gazette, October 20, 94.
1992
- J.W. Mahoney, On View, New Art Examiner, February-March Volume 19, photograph.
- Dinah Ryan, David Carlson, Art Papers, JY-AG.
1991
- Greg Hannan, Double Exposure, City Paper, November 29,
1989
- Poet lore, (cover reproduction), Vol. 84, No. 2.
- Alice Thorson,Galleries, The Washington Times, June 1.
- Jane Anthony Buckman, David Carlson, Eyewash, May.
- Laura King, Spring Solos, The Journal, May 5.
1988
- Laura King, Every Picture Tells a Part of the Story in Painting 88’. The Journal, December 16.
- Elizabeth Wiener, Reston Arts Center Exhibits Spunk, Washington Post, July 14.
1987
- Joe Mackall,Gold From the Guilds, Washington Post, February.
External Links[edit]
References[edit]
- ↑ [file:///Users/davidcarlson/Desktop/Galleries%20and%20Business/Cohn%20Drennan%20Contemporary/Modern%20Dallas%20review.webarchive]
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