Please join us at:
Armory Show Modern
March 7-11, 2012
Pier 92, NYC
DAVID SHARPE
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Watercolor Paintings on Paper |
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8-3-07 Watercolor and Pencil on Paper 22 1/4 x 30 inches DS 61 |
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Watercolor and Pencil on Paper 22 1/4 x 30 inches 8-5-07 DS 62 |
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8-1-07 Watercolor and Pencil on Paper 22 1/4 x 30 inches DS 63 |
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8-14-07 Watercolor and Pencil on Paper 22 1/4 x 30 inches DS 64 |
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8-13-07 Watercolor and Pencil on Paper 22 1/4 x 30 inches DS 65
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7-28-07 Watercolor and Pencil on Paper 22 1/4 x 30 inches DS 66
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7-20-07 Watercolor and Pencil on Paper 22 1/4 x 30 inches DS 67
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Pissaro's Nightmare 6-27-07 Watercolor and Pencil on Paper 22 1/4 x 30 inches DS 68
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Small Pencil and Oil Paintings on Panel |
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5-29-09 Oil and Pencil on Panel 18 x 24 inches DS 70 |
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7-6-09 Oil and Pencil on Panel 18 x 24 inches DS 72 |
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6-26-09 Oil and Pencil on Panel 18 x 24 inches DS 73 |
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7-10-09 Oil and Pencil on Panel 18 x 24 inches DS 74 |
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2-13-08 Oil and Pencil on Panel 18 x 24 inches DS 75 |
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Paris 10-27-09 Oil and Pencil on Panel 18 x 24 inches DS 76 |
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5-30-09 Oil and Pencil on Panel 18 x 24 inches DS 77 |
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4-13-09 Oil and Pencil on Panel 18 x 24 inches DS 78 |
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3-3-08 Oil and Pencil on Panel 18 x 24 inches DS 79 |
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7-11-09 Oil and Pencil on Panel 18 x 24 inches DS 80 |
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5-11-08 Oil on Canvas 36 x 48 inches DS 81
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7-29-09 Oil on Canvas 54 x 72 inches DS 82 |
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9-8-09 Oil on Canvas 54 x 72 inches DS 83
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The Bridge Oil on Canvas 12-22-09 52 x 114 inches DS 84 |
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Early Works |
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Interior, 66 x 66 inches. oil on canvas DS 1
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The Bath Oil on Canvas 72 x 66 inches 2-5-81 DS 60
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Tar Beach Oil on Canvas 9-20-88 64 x 78 inches DS 85
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Untitled Oil on Canvas 6-20-80 72 x 72 inches DS 86 |
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4-23-78 Oil on Canvas 30 x 42 inches DS 87
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DS 9, Reclining Nude w Flowers, 48 x 60 inches. oil on canvas |
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DS 11, Figure w Still Life, 48 x 60 inches. oil on canvas |
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DS 12, Seated Nude, 60 x 48 inches, oil on canvas |
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DS 13, Untitled, 56 x 70 inches, oil on canvas |
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DS 14, Evening, 36 x 48 inches, oil on canvas |
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DS 15, The Reaper, 48 x 36 inches. oil on canvas |
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DS 17, Untitled, 50 x 66 inches. oil on canvas |
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DS 18, Untitled, 64 x 78 inches. oil on canvas |
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DS 20, The Sower, 4 8 x 36 inches. oil on canvas |
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DS 5, Greenwood Lake I, Watercolor and pencil on paper, 22 1/2 x 29 3/4 inches.
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DS 6, Greenwood Lake II, Watercolor and pencil on paper, 22 1/2 x 29 3/4 inches. |
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Re-Inventions of Life in Its Various Forms
Carl Hammer Gallery is once again honored to present the painting mastery of artist David Sharpe to the Chicago art community and to the visiting public from Art Chicago 2010. The imagination of Sharpe’s palette of landscapes and figurative forms knows no boundary lines. His intuitive senses are uncanny, as if he were working purely from an instinctive, compulsive-obsessive tradition. Yet Sharpe remains in control throughout utilizing a display of dynamic interaction with ideas and subjects, all drawn from daily experiences while also addressing the traditions of painting both academic and outsider. One painting surely stands as a superb example of the artist capitalizing upon his day to day experiences in his new body of work. The Bridge is a wonderfully expansive recollection from his daily traverse of the Manhattan Bridge across New York’s East River via the Q train, from home to studio and back again. The painting captures the dynamic aspects of a spectacle unique to this view of lower Manhattan. As the artist takes in the panoply of the majestic Brooklyn Bridge, the activity of the great New York Harbor, and the human rituals engaged in both, his gaze, painted with a kind of cosmic fascination, leads us, the viewer, into a wonderment of the combined visual relationships involved in such daily drama. In this current body of work, David Sharpe succeeds at doing what he does so very frequently - breaking new ground. Working in a series of 18 x 24 inch paintings, the artist discovered that the smaller format lent itself to experimentation and, hence, greater innovation. While there, he succeeded in creating a new and different dialogue with natural phenomena derived from the real world and not from TV, radio or digitally made up places. In doing so, Sharpe has successfully fine tuned his way of looking at the real world, painting it in a new and personal way. As in looking at a sunsets or creating a study of a still life scene, Sharpe’s experimentation with them does not end up cliché-like. But nothing is ever cliché about David Sharpe’s work. His unending inventiveness and the void of stylistic sentimentality result in a vision full of incisive humor, yet permitting us to better “see” the human experience in a marvelously unique way.
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