"I work from memory and imagination, then I try to transform it, to minimalize it, to pare it down to the essential... Corot called his paintings 'souvenirs' - poetic memories - that is what I'd like to call my work."

Michael David's atmospheric monotypes eloquently combine a formal interest in composition and geometric abstraction, with a desire to invest his work with elusive qualities of mood.  Drawn from memory and imagination, his monochromatic visions are imbued with an emotional immediacy often lost in direct observation.  While broad in subject matter - from edgy urban nightscapes, to his recent interest in silver glass and enamel vessels and souvenirs, all of David's work is charged with a striking impression of fine detail coupled with a sublime treatment of light.

Michael David is a Full Professor and Chair of the Fine Arts Department at the Art Institute of Boston at Lesley University.  He received his AB from Brandeis University, his MFA from Boston University, and attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture.  He has been awarded numerous honors including two New England Foundation for the Arts Grants, Massachusetts Artists Foundation Fellowships and was a recipient of a Massachusetts Cultural Council Artist Grant in painting.  David's work is included in numerous collections including locally, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the Fogg Art Museum, and the Boston Public Library

Michael David's work will be featured in the AIB faculty printmakers exhibition: Ink, Wipe, Roll, Print.  March 8 - March 31, 2007.  All work will be available exclusively through Pepper Gallery.  We will also have a selection of new monotypes on view through March 31.

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