Dimebreed 2005, oil and mixed media on canvas 60'x36

Featured Artist: David Shrobe

How did you get your start as an artist?
I grew up in a very artistic household, where pursuing my artistic skills was encouraged.

Who were some of your early artistic influences?
Artists that immediately come to mind as having the most impact are Keith Haring, Basquiat, Picasso, Matisse, and Stuart Davis.

How would you describe your work?
Alive... I create art to go through boundaries. My artistic expression comes from my individual experience, culture and environment. My life takes shape and form on the canvas. My principle interest as an artist is to express the world as felt. My criterion of when a work is finished, isn't by how beautiful it looks, but how true it is to my experience. I create my own objects and language, straight out of my imagination.

When I apply paint to the canvas, I leave my artist hand left to itself, which creates the image I want. Pouring paint, using my fingers, bold brush strokes, cutting and pasting is how I create my art. The decisions I make while painting are made on the basis of feeling. The appearance of my paintings depends on not only what I do, but on what I refuse to do. My painting is a reality among realities, which has been felt and formed. It is a pattern of choices made from the realm of possible choices, which gives my work its form and color.

Wurkers 2005 oil and mixed media on canvas

What would you like to share about work that you are presently creating? What is inspriring it or what inspires you generally?
The current state of emergency all over the world is inspiring my latest series of work. My recent work fuses elements of Abstract Expressionism, Pop Art and Graffiti with an emphasis on light, energy and motion, to express my individual urban idealism. The relationships between objects within the visual realm are rendered through the use of line and vivid color. Combining organic forms with aspects of urban street life to create a visual dialogue, that takes the viewer on a journey through the unexpected.

Any final comments that you would like to share with our readers?
Art Rules!!!!!!!!!!!

I could not have said it any better myself... Look for David's work at this venue through January 27th: Gallery M on West 135th St btw. Lenox and 7th (Adam Clayton Powell Blvd).

Feel free to contact David via email or check out his website

Depths 2005, oil and mixed media on canvas, 60"x48"

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