David Brewster
Hood Loaders and Slashers: The Creative Process
Tremendous sounds and a sensational visual encounter along the banks of the North River. Perhaps it is more like a stage with a backdrop of scaffolding while various groupings of heavy metal percussionists jam. Central to the debris field of logs and piles of detritus is a bright red machine responsible for fashioning and loading the strewn materials. The piercing jet black verticals that slash the picture plane evoke serious wounds inflicted upon the earth and sky. ~David Brewster
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“the subject matter is very typical of what I’m attracted to, and that is that age old wrestling match between humans and nature…”
David Brewster, study for Hood Loaders and Slashers, 2020
Site photo by David Brewster, 2020
David Brewster, study for Hood Loaders and Slashers, 2020
David Brewster, study for Hood Loaders and Slashers, 2020
Site photo by David Brewster, 2020
David Brewster, study for Hood Loaders and Slashers, 2020
“the use of tape for me became an enhancement of my own drawing. I love drawing, it is the absolute foundation of any painting. It was a way to also preserve the white of the paper, which is a light source. And because I so quickly, as I start to develop a painting, get complex and my surfaces tend to get busy, it was an opportunity to preserve vast areas of the white of the paper. And then when I got too complex I could pull it away and still have a second chance, a third chance, even a fourth chance, to bring back some general areas of simplicity…”
David Brewster
Born in Baltimore in 1960, David Brewster earned his MFA from the University of Pennsylvannia 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 and 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. see David Brewster’s Artist Page