Statement
In my studio practice, I am compelled to represent ideas and images through material accumulation and manipulation. The objects and installations that I make are intended to invite participation and cultivate understanding but at the same time connote distortion, dissidence and confusion. I use light, glass and other materials to convey experiences that may be transient or disorientating. I intend to exploit the poetic potential of phenomena created by visual perception such as perspective and optical illusion. This work explores the connections between our collective understanding of the natural world and the avenues by which we experience and have defined that world. By keeping my source content diverse and varied, the opportunities for conceptual cross-fertilization allows the work to stay unencumbered and sometimes unexpected.
Bio
David King is originally from Dayton, Ohio. He holds a BFA from the Ohio State University and an MFA from Tyler School of Art, Temple University in Philadelphia, PA where he currently lives. He has continued his craft-based studies at Northlands Center for Creative Glass, the Penland School of Crafts, Pilchuck Glass School and WheatonArts where he was a fellow in their prestigious residency program. His work has been show nationally and internationally and featured in New Glass Review 32. David recently received the emerging artist award for the 42nd Annual Glass Art Society Conference where he will give a lecture on his work.
In my studio practice, I am compelled to represent ideas and images through material accumulation and manipulation. The objects and installations that I make are intended to invite participation and cultivate understanding but at the same time connote distortion, dissidence and confusion. I use light, glass and other materials to convey experiences that may be transient or disorientating. I intend to exploit the poetic potential of phenomena created by visual perception such as perspective and optical illusion. This work explores the connections between our collective understanding of the natural world and the avenues by which we experience and have defined that world. By keeping my source content diverse and varied, the opportunities for conceptual cross-fertilization allows the work to stay unencumbered and sometimes unexpected.
Bio
David King is originally from Dayton, Ohio. He holds a BFA from the Ohio State University and an MFA from Tyler School of Art, Temple University in Philadelphia, PA where he currently lives. He has continued his craft-based studies at Northlands Center for Creative Glass, the Penland School of Crafts, Pilchuck Glass School and WheatonArts where he was a fellow in their prestigious residency program. His work has been show nationally and internationally and featured in New Glass Review 32. David recently received the emerging artist award for the 42nd Annual Glass Art Society Conference where he will give a lecture on his work.
