A Brief History
As a child I was interested in drawing first with a realists hand , what I saw . Later, more interested in what the eyes did not see.
I have always created without a strict outline of a composition. This artist does not presume to always know what he is doing and enjoys discovering the shapes of perception as time passes while doing the artwork.
I decided as an adolescent that it was important to learn the established languages of visual art from many cultures and styles. How and why other artists saw and did what they did. To learn anatomy, to be a competent draftsman, and grow familiar with art techniques and materials. These are the alphabet, tools and vocabulary of the painter. I pursued for one year a post high school education at Pratt Institute in New York city, however the greater education was provided by being an artist in New York city more then at the school. After one year of the school I departed and engaged myself as an exhibiting artist in the birthing art district of lower Manhattan called SOHO, now largely transformed into boutiques.
From SOHO, I explored exposition in other neighborhoods in Manhattan, and around metropolitan New York. From the upper east side, midtown and downtown. I designed magazine advertisements and T shirts for an investment company he spent three years working for while setting up his New York gallery affiliations.
During this time I was a frequent contributing writer to what was at the time an " underground paper" in the pre internet pre-blog 1980's days called Inside Joke, published by Elaine Weschler. I had several short stories published and contributed some illustrations.
(https://doctechnical.com/insidejoke/insidejoke-about.html)
After achieving exhibition venues in most Manhattan neighborhoods, New Jersey and Philadelphia, there was a recession, during which all five galleries in Manhattan I was an exhibiting member of, closed. At this juncture I moved to Vermont, lived in an old Pearl Buck house in Danby and painted followed by dwellings in Manchester, Dorset and Burlington Vermont. At this time I also began experimenting with faux finishes and trompe l'oeil painting. There was limited opportunity for this kind of work in Vermont, but an invitation came to participate in such projects in Ft Lauderdale, Florida in the mid 1990's. In south east Florida and from there other US states, I expanded into a variety of Decorative Arts.
This expanded into a wide variety of design/paint applications, in restaurants, homes, business interiors and street facades, and yachts. A number of years were also spent design and executing set design for regional theaters from the Florida Keys to West Palm Beach, and outside Florida in other states and countries. The styles/techniques I was asked to study and present for clients is wide, my familiarity with different styles gained me a lot of work.
After many years of such work I attempted to reduce the amount of time in Decorative Arts and return to my own painting. I was a critical founder and advocate for a performance art group called the Randomists in south east Florida. This was a group of artists from every discipline performing spontaneously and interchanging roles as painter, writer, dancer, musician, etc in a public space. One faction sought greater financial compensation than other performers and the cohesiveness of creativity collapsed after a little over a year.
I exhibited in Ft Lauderdale a few times, Palm Beach, and in Miami by invitation, but had generally withdrawn from exhibiting fine art paintings. Fortunately my clients called me periodically to create or restore fine art. And I began to rely on light construction projects for income. This freed me to create in many directions without spending quantities of time in self promotion.
In 2008 David published a book intending to clarify the distinctions between the hysteria of 2012 and the gloom and doom interpreters of Mayan mythology, using the astrological theories that supposedly underwrote the premise .
The book was available at Amazon.com for four years, withdrawn from publication in 2013, pending a follow up that has never been completed. The book explained my unique perspective on astrology and the current era with a view from the ideas of quantum physics and general psychology. This point of view is not familiar to most people, astrologers and non astrologers. While the book pointed out that there was clearly insufficient astrological material to support anything like the Mayan world ending myth, I pointed out that at the end of that decade beginning in the late teens and culminating in 2021-26 there would be incredible astrological material supporting a world changing transformation though it would be painful and incredibly difficult for some.
Another manuscript recently completed is creatively tied to a large painting is under way and due for release in later 2025, not yet completed. The painting concerns a timeless metaphysical drama I will not yet name. The players are actors on the multi dimensional stage of the psyche.
David has recorded somewhere around 200 songs, many of them original. As it is in his commercial decorative painting David enjoys many musical styles. During the initial Covid year facing isolation I decided to try my hand at animation to my own songs. Here's a link to the first one and if you found that you can find the others:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=43_c8X1Xje4