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David Sheldon
United States
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Artwork details
- Medium : Oil on Canvas
- Other details : Artwork on supported wooden frame. Artwork framed.
- Dimensions : 10x8in
About this artwork
"Barn Owl" is a single painting taken from the larger grouping of what I call a 'consolidated' whole image. I use each bird depicted in the original “Field Guide to the Birds of North America” as a starting reference. But, my aim in each painting is to move beyond the rational, scientific thought system and bird description and allow another system to take its place. This 'alternative system' is based on allowing the Subconscious and what I would…
call my 'emotional center' to take over and express the bird in a non-verbal, more poetic way - a small, expressive, intimate abstraction results. My subconscious seems to contain the history of non-objective painting in it, so this influence reveals itself obliquely at times, and directly at times. The paintings play with the concept of non-objective painting, in that an ‘object’ - the bird - is already established, forcing the mind to accept the non-objective image as an object. This project is on-going with no real end in sight.
David Sheldon
United States
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- Major permanent collection
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- Favorited by galleries
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- Works on commission
« My goals in art-making are exploring the nature of who I am, and my relationship to the world. »
At age nine, American painter and sculptor David Sheldon was hospital bound after a major operation and was given his first oil-painting kit- he hasn't stopped making art since. The theme of Sheldon's sculpture work revolves around the question, "Who am I, and what is my relationship to the Infinite?" Regarding his paintings, Sheldon works intuitively, and likes to constantly question his methods. Sheldon't futuristic steel sculptures and abstract expressionist oil paintings are fluid, bright, and intriguing.
