DAVID  SHARPE

CARL HAMMER GALLERY

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DAVID SHARPE

 

Watercolor Paintings on Paper

 

8-3-07

Watercolor and Pencil on Paper

22 1/4 x 30 inches

DS 61

Watercolor and Pencil on Paper

22 1/4 x 30 inches

8-5-07

DS 62

8-1-07

Watercolor and Pencil on Paper

22 1/4 x 30 inches

DS 63

8-14-07

Watercolor and Pencil on Paper

22 1/4 x 30 inches

DS 64

8-13-07

Watercolor and Pencil on Paper

22 1/4 x 30 inches

DS 65

 

7-28-07

Watercolor and Pencil on Paper

22 1/4 x 30 inches

DS 66

 

7-20-07

Watercolor and Pencil on Paper

22 1/4 x 30 inches

DS 67

 

Pissaro's Nightmare

6-27-07

Watercolor and Pencil on Paper

22 1/4 x 30 inches

DS 68

 

Small Pencil and

Oil Paintings on Panel

 

5-29-09

Oil and Pencil on Panel

18 x 24 inches

DS 70

7-6-09

Oil and Pencil on Panel

18 x 24 inches

DS 72

6-26-09

Oil and Pencil on Panel

18 x 24 inches

DS 73

7-10-09

Oil and Pencil on Panel

18 x 24 inches

DS 74

2-13-08

Oil and Pencil on Panel

18 x 24 inches

DS 75

Paris

10-27-09

Oil and Pencil on Panel

18 x 24 inches

DS 76

5-30-09

Oil and Pencil on Panel

18 x 24 inches

DS 77

4-13-09

Oil and Pencil on Panel

18 x 24 inches

DS 78

3-3-08

Oil and Pencil on Panel

18 x 24 inches

DS 79

7-11-09

Oil and Pencil on Panel

18 x 24 inches

DS 80
Large

Oil on Canvas

Paintings

 

Anne

10-20-92

Oil on canvas

46 x 34 inches

DS 101

 

5-11-08

Oil on Canvas

36 x 48 inches

DS 81

 

7-29-09

Oil on Canvas

54 x 72 inches

DS 82

9-8-09

Oil on Canvas

54 x 72 inches

DS 83

 

The Bridge

Oil on Canvas

12-22-09

52 x 114 inches

DS 84

Early Works

 

Interior,

66 x 66 inches.

oil on canvas

DS 1

 

The Bath

Oil on Canvas

72 x 66 inches

2-5-81

DS 60

 

Tar Beach

Oil on Canvas

9-20-88

64 x 78 inches

DS 85

 

Untitled

Oil on Canvas

6-20-80

72 x 72 inches

DS 86

4-23-78

Oil on Canvas

30 x 42 inches

DS 87

 

DS 9, Reclining Nude w Flowers,

48 x 60 inches.

oil on canvas

DS 11, Figure w Still Life,

48 x 60 inches.

oil on canvas

DS 12, Seated Nude,

60 x 48 inches,

oil on canvas

DS 13, Untitled,

56 x 70 inches,

oil on canvas

DS 14, Evening,

36 x 48 inches,

oil on canvas

DS 15, The Reaper,

48 x 36 inches.

oil on canvas

DS 17, Untitled,

50 x 66 inches.

oil on canvas

DS 18, Untitled,

64 x 78 inches.

oil on canvas

DS 20, The Sower, 4

8 x 36 inches.

oil on canvas

DS 5, Greenwood Lake I,

Watercolor and pencil on paper,

22 1/2 x 29 3/4 inches.

 

DS 6, Greenwood Lake II,

Watercolor and pencil on paper,

22 1/2 x 29 3/4 inches.

 

 

 

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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