Dear Friends,

December 1, 2008   


Happy holidays are upon us! Although I am not having an Open House before Christmas, I will be serving coffee and entertaining friends who would like to drop by at a time of their convenience. Call me! I look forward to talking with you.

Seattle News

I am excited to tell you I have joined Gallery 110, an excellent cooperative gallery in Seattle's Pioneer Square, a popular art gallery district. I'm planning for a show next summer or early fall. The show will include new paintings from Ships Mountains and the Sea (see below) as well as from my new series Paintings of the Wind: Images of kite-boarders on Nitinaht Lake. I hope you will enjoy these new works!


View from the Old School, Late Afternoon - Vancouver, BC, acrylic, 9 x 24 inches

Vancouver News

Examples from the new Island series are advertised in the winter issue of Preview Magazine and in January’s Canadian Art. The paintings can be seen at the Café Pane e Formaggio between Sasamat and Tolmie at 4532 West 10th Avenue. Stop by for excellent coffee!


From the Beach House VIII - Still Dawn with Old Boat, Quadra Island, 2008, acrylic, 11 x 30 inches

In mid-winter I will change the show a final time to the landscapes of Provence and Spain, and include more of the long-horizontal series of landscapes from Spain & Provence, including Segovia (shown below)



Segovia Castillia, Spain, 2008, acrylic, 4.75 x 22.75 inches

American Visionary Art Museum

Four paintings from my Kindertotentanz series are currently in “Marriage of Art, Science and Philosophy” at the American Visionary Art Museum (AVAM), a beautiful world-class institution on the inner-harbor of Baltimore, Maryland. The exhibition opened October 2008 and runs until September 2009.
I went to the opening party at the Museum. I shared an early supper with 15 friends from the East Coast then toured the packed show: the work of over 50 self-taught artists, beautifully displayed and an exhilarating combination of passion, emotion, and intellect. My impression of the mainstream Contemporary Art World in recent years, in my tours of museums and art-shows and perusals of art journals, is one of calculation, a peripheral-glance-at-the-crowd’s-reaction, a desire by the artist to shock instead of putting in the extra effort to emotionally and intellectually move the viewer. At the AVAM, I was struck by the absence of cynicism and manipulation. In my fellow self-taught artists I found conviction, intelligence and articulate craft. The result was a powerful experience.
Wishing you the best, and looking forward to seeing you soon, David.

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