David D'Agostino
A simple walk in the New Mexico wilderness both enthralls and
terrorizes me. Suddenly, a desert thunderstorm creates whirling
pools of blindness or iced rivers propel an irreversible slip of bone
and muscle.
Based on treks to desolate mountain peaks and desert lowlands,
my paintings and installations accept the rupture: imposing,
fractured, eerie, barren, shadowed otherworldly places marked
by human encroachment. Landscapes where motion, stone, and
gravity collapse our flimsy identities. Lifting our gaze toward form
and emptiness, hovering between the seen and unseen.
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