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dAVId NEWMAN

with consummate assurance he deals with the idea of contrasting spaces, the strength of the never-retouched line, which states its bold message in
which he sometimes refers to as his “negative space”. Reluctant to feel one swooping stroke over the virgin canvas. Sometimes the white canvas
locked into a painting without escape from the pervasion of color, he is the line itself left as a pristine vine separating the areas of color.
pierces perspectives that allow the onlooker his own exploratory space.
A relief in an overcrowded world. Newman’s longtime familiarity with Motives are embroidered with thick outpourings from the tube etching
sculpture brings solidity, structure and weight to the playfulness of his relief, and singing the joy of matter. The surface is often a stormy sea,
designs. His constant scrutiny of life forms – many of the works emerge reminding us that out of the sea came the infinite variations of life. Nature
from sessions with models, while others are strongly dependent on is here pursued into its intangible interplay of light, dark, sun, shade,
the inner images conjured up by waves, rocks, jagged cliffs and ebbing mists, and the rusty ochre of a newly furrowed field.
seas – as awareness of other modes of existence. All this contributes to
a pulsing feeling of primeval life.

These elements integrate into an undeniable coherence, inviting you  BLaCK LaNDsCaPe #31, 1999 OIL ON CANvAS 36x60 IN. / 90x150 CM.
to a unique world that spells essential creation without the obvious  trIaNGLes #78, 2000 OIL ON CANvAS 30x40 IN. / 75x100 CM. 
alphabet dancing on it. The immediacy of the artist’s visions rest upon  stILL LIFe WItH BOttLe aND GLass, 1981 wATERCOLOR 30x22 IN. /75x55 CM.
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