DAVID BREWSTER
“My paintings synthesize a 200-year-old tradition of American Scene Painting into a new breaking point of abstraction in order to make sense of an increasingly bizarre and incongruous synthetic landscape. I wield a wide range of abstract mark making into a language that provides structure and perspective to order an overwhelming visual clutter. My interpretations of urban centers, suburbia and farmlands are not as we remember them — not sentimental imitations, but as they are, hybrids of historic architecture and modern amenities of late-stage capitalism. My subjects are fast food drive-throughs, big-box shopping plazas, and rotting post industrial detritus.”
— David Brewster
David Brewster (b. 1960, Baltimore, MD) earned his MFA from the University of Pennsylvannia in 1988, and has since been invited to paint, lecture, and exhibit throughout the United States, Europe and Asia. He’s represented in private and museum collections including the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archives, the Robert Hull Fleming Museum, Woodmere Art Museum, Berman Museum, the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, the Orton Foundation, Princeton University Art Museum, the Pennsylvania State Museum, the Wharton School of Business, the Johns Hopkins Carey Business School, Brown Advisory in Baltimore, MD, and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Bangkok, Thailand. He has received numerous awards including grants from the Pollock-Krasner Foundation and the Taconic Berkshire Foundation, as well as fellowships at the Ballinglen Arts and Klots foundations.
David Brewster, Peonies and Stiff Brush II, 2019, oil on Mi-Teintes, 47 x 32 inches