David Matthew King (b. 1981, Southern California, USA)
King unleashes his creative freedom by combining his poetic sense of rhythm and elision with self-imposed constraints. He limits his palette to predominantly elementary colours with the deliberate omission of black and white. This constellation of solid coloured and humble components suggests the reduction of art to its basic material elements. The simplicity of the form is played down by a deceptive form of mark making: scraping and scrubbing acrylic paint into raw canvas in repeating forms until they billow or leap from the natural ground. King stages oppositions between clear contours of forms and freshness of the unprimed canvas that left in the raw material state becomes absolutely necessary in the same way silence is necessary to music, conversation, thought or reflection.
