SEPTEMBER 2026
CENTER GALLERY
Figurescape | David Pettibone
It’s important to me that the painting is allowed to develop organically. I try to keep the work open for as long as possible. To do that, I paint directly from life. When painting this way nothing is static. Colors shift with the sun, shadows grow and then disappear. These infinite micro changes insert an element of the unexpected and force me to respond in ways that I could never plan for. Working on paper has allowed me to respond to these changes in new ways, through cutting away, adding to the composition and even collaging new substrate to manipulate the surface. The result is an improvisation of intermingling layers of physical texture, of illusion and flat strokes of color that weave the impression of figure and landscape into a cohesive whole.
PHOTOS COMING SOON!
