Gay Palm Springs this week Nov 14 to Nov 20, 2018

AdamsArtExpose’ ART
HYW 62 OPEN STUDIO ARTIST -
DAVID BOTTOMS
The visit to David Bottoms studio/home
was following the previous weekend of
sever weather in Joshua Tree, wind and
flooding had raised havoc especially with
the gravel roads in the area. David's
studio is located on such a road. He
informed us that he performs much of
the maintenance on the roads with a
tractor he has on his property. His studio
is a new modern structure designed
specifically for his work. Outside of the
studio a few yards away in an open area is
an approximate 10 foot by 10 foot raised
platform with stairs leading to the top. He
informed us that he uses it for viewing
the stars and the landscape generally
while laying down on the platform. As a
result of Joshua Tree, and the area around
it, being on a high plateau the viewing of
stars and surrounding area is unique as if
seeing the sky from inside a bowl.
David's painting is unique in his
interpretation of subjects in what he calls
an abstract realism. When you view
his work it may remind you of a video
pixelation such as might happen when
you watch TV and there is a glitch in the
broadcast where the picture is broken into
a series of square pixelations. The subject
of his work is based on representation
of people, animals, landscapes, and
cityscapes. He explains that he breaks
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the picture apart, reducing shapes to
tiles or small squares of color. This
process he uses to break the space he calls
"constructive deconstruction of images".
His work has a similarity to Piet
Mondrian's iconic work of reducing visual
reality to what Mondrian called macro
level interpretation. However Mondrian
went to a further reduction using only
black lines forming squares and rectangles
with red, yellow and blue color. David's
work leaves more visual identification of
the subject which causes the viewer to
look carefully and to visually construct
the subject from the pixels of color that
intersperse into space around the central
object. His art causes an active visual
construction as you enjoy viewing the
work.
More of his work may be viewed at www.
dbottoms.com., where you can also find
further contact information .
Questions, comments, suggestions,
contact - adamsartexpose@gmail.com or
adamsartexpose@ddg.com.
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