David Row - Beacon, 2018 (detail)

David Row

Postmodernism, Geometric abstraction

August 28, 2013

David Row is a contemporary artist associated with the movements of Postmodern Painting and Conceptual Abstraction. He is best known for his shaped canvases and installations.

Born in 1949 in Portland, Maine, Row grew up in Kolkata, India. He currently lives and works in New York. Row went on to study art receiving both his BA and MFA degrees at Yale, where he studied under Joseph Albers, Al Held, Lester Johnson, William Bailey, David von Schlegell, and Brice Marden. He exhibited in venues all around the world, including Loretta Howard Gallery, New York, NY, Locks Gallery, Philadelphia, PA, McClain Gallery, Houston, TX, Von Lintel Gallery, New York, NY, Ulrich Museum, Wichita, KS, Galerie Thomas von Lintel, Munich, Germany and Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg, Austria. His works are included in the collections of the Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh, the Brooklyn Museum, and the Cleveland Museum of Art, among others. Row continues to live and work in New York, NY. He has taught and lectured at The Cooper Union, Rhode Island School of Design, Pratt Institute, Fordham University and currently teaches in the School of Visual Arts MFA Program.

Row's work is mainly characterized by language of painterly fragmented geometric abstraction that is usually formed on shaped canvases and installations. He works with matte surfaces and both muted and high-pitched colors. As he explained, the experience of visiting India as a teenager had a profound impact on his sense of color. All the paintings consist of several canvases, each one a different size. In each, there are lines suggesting huge parabolas.

Featured image: David Row - Beacon, 2018 (detail). Silkscreen in 3 colors with waterbased and UV inks. 48 3/4 x 68 1/2 inches. 123.8 x 174 cm. Edition of 10, with 3 APs, 3 PPs, BAT. Photo courtesy Two Palms Gallery

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