has been for sale for some time, as you have seen. The maintenance and ongoing development to keep our non-profit and idealistic platform for contemporary art running and safe from hackers etc. costs money that is no longer there. Because of small investments that are necessary now and the running costs, we will have to shut down with a heavy heart at the beginning of summer on June 21.
"Break of Day", 2015, acrylic and papier collé on plywood. Multiple layers of paper and paint create rhythms suggesting the light and sounds of a summer morning.
To see more of my work, visit http://www.davidleeholcomb.com
"The Upper Pasture", 2015, acrylic on canvas (gallery wrap), 20 inches wide by 16 tall (50 x 40 cm).
A lone figure walks a familiar path up toward sunlit fields and woods. Overhead hot, turbulent clouds build toward sunset, and along the path the late-summer weeds and grass turn yellow in the hazy afternoon light.
This painting is built on recollections of my childhood in rural Alabama during the mid-1960s.
The painting is on triple-primed cotton duck canvas, stretched on standard 3/4" depth stretcher bars, framed in a wood “floater” frame, ready to hang; it is signed and dated both front and back, with title on back.
To see additional images of this work, including a view of it framed, visit my website at http://www.davidleeholcomb.com
"The Rose of Strange Places", 2015, acrylic on fiberboard, 24 inches wide by 30 inches tall (60 x 75 cm).
A fantastic landscape of crystalline structures, folded space, and filigree clouds is dominated by a single rose, the one stable object in the chaos. There is an atmosphere of alchemy and transformation.
Acrylic paint and plaster dust are layered with broad curves of cut paper in natural brown and moss green, then sanded. This process is repeated to create a complex and ambiguous surface. On this surface -- and re-establishing its flatness -- are filigree patterns in white, off-white, gray and green, suggesting clouds.
"The Centaur's Shirt", 2015, acrylic, cut paper and metal button on fiberboard, 16 x 16 inches (40 x 40 cm).
The title comes from the Greek myth describing the death of Herakles (Hercules).
Cut paper, including slices of book pages, are layered with acrylic in black, blue, yellow and white and sanded down, then a pattern of fine lines in thinned acrylic is used to create a flowing shape like fabric, threaded into and around the paper forms. A small gold and black metal button suggests the sun, or perhaps an eye.
The area of black in the lower left was built up by successive layers of red, blue-gray, orange, yellow, iron-oxide red, and dark gray, each layer scraped with a wire brush when dry, before receiving the next layer, to create a matte blue-black surface contrasting with the pale forms in the rest of the painting.
To see more about this artwork, visit its page at Saatchi Art: http://www.saatchiart.com/art/Painting-The-Centaur-s-Shirt/343864/2655735/view
