Spotlight Artist

David Willburn

West
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Featured in New American Paintings

Artist Statement

 Fantasy is an important part of my studio practice; it lends itself easily to abstraction and provides me with a basis for addressing the complex conversations of our time. Themes of reconstructing landscapes, monuments, and references to structures and dwellings are central in my work. These things are negotiated at the intersection of fine art and craft as a way to democratize and navigate social and political ideas and histories. This world is difficult to explain through realism.

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