Featured Artist

David Row

Born in 1949, Portland, Maine
Studied at Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut (B.A., 1972; M.F.A., 1974)
Lives and works in New York City
Teaches at Fordham University, Bronx, New York

"For some time my work has involved the tension between fragments and wholes. I'm not exactly sure why I'm drawn to this quality except that it seems to reflect the disparity between what we desire (wholeness) and what we experience (fragment)."  

David Row has developed a stunning visual vocabulary derived direct from the building blocks of art making ­ line, composition and form. Skirting on the edges of intense passion and the precession of technology, Row's paintings are seductive and gorgeous as the they are layered with precise lines and scraped surfaces; all creating rich tapestries of color and contrasting tones. Row's trademark is undulating curvilinear strokes, that seem contained for a moment by the edges of the canvas, then pass out of view on to some infinite destination.