David T. Alexander, William’s Oeuvre Flows Through, acrylic on canvas, 77” x 78”
“Two elements are needed to form a truth—a fact and an abstraction.”—Remy de Gourmont
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avid T. Alexander gracefully commingles abstraction and realism to form an illustrious truth. His paintings are exhilarating expressions of escalated color of tumultuous landscapes. He sees the natural world as alive and in constant motion. Alexander’s signature landscapes (Dry Series) and waterscapes (Wet Series) represent his significant 50-year history of painting and drawing with a bold palette and vitally gestural application.
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The Wet Series explores water as form by combining luminous colors with flattened, uncanny perspectives. Reflective pools, elusive ripples, and subtle shifts of light and glare are punctuated by tall, vertical reeds that culminate in richly painted surfaces oscillating between pure abstraction and recognizable natural forms. In his Dry Series, Alexander continues his interest in evoking dramatic horizon lines, textured craggy terrain, and cliff faces with a
