David Dunn
Artist Statement

My new paintings are about confrontation, upsetting convention, division, disturbance, fragmentation, and displacement. They are about layers; what is underneath being revealed from behind, the new covering the old, and the old peaking through. The landscapes are about the continuous steamroller onslaught of progress. The changes in the urban landscape and the corrections, revisions, and juxtapositions that approximate how it seems to me. How can a picture evoke time in a non-linear way? I’m looking at the speed with which things move today, and the impossibility of capturing a moment in the painting but instead several moments overlapped which convey the essence.

The figurative paintings also confront this intersection of visual information. I’m working with patterns of interference, ambiguous imagery, and after-images. I’m thinking about the concept of the self and the impossibility of portraiture-that is-of evoking the presence of self. I’m looking at the body and the figure in new ways including its memory and perception through feel. I’m interested in our visual assumptions today, how seeing has been effected by photography and television, pixels and pixilation.