David Brock

medium: painting

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Fence Line 2007 Painting	Red Earth 2005 Painting	Bales 2006 Painting
Slope 2007 Painting	Hillside 2006 Painting	Falls 2006 Painting
3 Trees 2007 Painting	Green Hill 2006 Painting	3 Windmills 2005 Painting
Terraces 2006 Painting

Contact information
Artist resides in: Eau Claire, WI
Email Address: artofbrock@hotmail.com
Web site: www.artofbrock.com

Artist statement
It seems I am always drawn to quiet places, those places where you can sit, relax, take nothing and seemingly everything in, places which are easily overlooked in our busy, day-to-day grind. These are the sites where I am able to recharge, reflect, to begin anew. Recently, I have kept going back to the agricultural landscape dotting the hills of northwestern Wisconsin as the sites of my work. I do not know if it is because of the repetition of large planes of land, broken only here and there by the chaotic input of nature; or whether it is the fact that these are the places that are forgotten, overlooked, thought of as unworthy as aesthetic muses. In either case, it is here that I have found the vocabulary to talk about my relationship with the place where I currently live.

My technique reflects the places I reproduce. By using a vocabulary of repetitive, simple shapes and flat color fields, the clutter of the details becomes less important while still being able to infuse the images with a calm and serenity without losing focus on the forms of the land. Either the sky or the earth dominate the canvases as the colors become scratched, worked, layered in an attempt to reveal the underlying workings of man while still showing the dominance of nature.

Biography
Education:

2006--MFA, 2D Studies, Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, Ohio

2005--Studio Arts Center International, Florence, Italy

1998--BA, University of Northern Colorado, Greeley, Colorado

Recent Exhibitions (*solo and 2-person shows marked with an asterisk):

2008               *Phipps Center for the Arts, Hudson, Wis.

2007
Polderland=Wonderland, Polderland Gallery, Milwaukee, Wis.

Winter Exhibition, Eau Claire Regional Arts Center Gallery (ECRAC), Eau Claire, Wis.

*Art Harvest, The Nines Gallery, Holland, Mich.

Views of the Chippewa Valley, Chippewa Valley Museum, Eau Claire, Wis.

*Place, The Gallery @ the Library, Algona Public Library, Algona, Iowa

ArtsWest 28 (juried), L.E. Phillips Memorial Library, Eau Claire, Wis.

Obsessions, ECRAC Gallery, Eau Claire, Wis.

*Surface Depth, ECRAC Gallery, Eau Claire, Wis.

2006
Arrowhead Biennial (juried), Duluth Art Institute, Duluth, Minn.

Winter Exhibition, ECRAC Gallery, Eau Claire, Wis.

*Line of Sight, The Nines Gallery, Holland, Mich.

*Tales of the Great Black Swamp, MFA Thesis Exhibition, Dorothy Uber Bryan Gallery, BGSU, Bowing Green, Ohio

2005               Editions Limited, The Nines Gallery, Holland, Mich.

20@22, Graduate Show, SACI, Florence, Italy
               Numero 7, Dolce Zucchero, Florence, Italy
               Florencimiento (juried), Uffizi Center, Florence, Italy

Gallery Representation

The Nines Gallery, Holland, Mich.