David Ahlsted Brooklyn Bridge, Sunset
Main Philadelphia, PA oil on gessoed paper, 23" x 23"
 

Towards Manhattan, Sunset

oil on gessoed paper, 23" x 23"

 
I am a realist painter, in that I paint the physical look of a tangible world. My method of working is "serial", in that I paint in series. Over a period of months (or years), I work on many related paintings that share an inter-relationship of theme, structure and syntax.

Slowly, as my work as an artist has evolved, I have gained the ability to interpret my subject matter in a manner that hopefully conveys my theoretical interests as well as my emotional and intuitive connections to it. As my subject has moved from the figure, to still-life, to the landscape, back to the figure, and now pack again to the still-life, my work has always remained formal in structure, in that its aesthetic balance tilts toward the abstract aspects of  painting rather than description.. Content plus geometry, color, light and shadow .... painting not concerned as much with the duplication of experience as with the extension of experience on the plane of formal invention.

 
 
EDUCATION:
Minneapolis College of Art, B.F.A.
Indiana University, M.F.A.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS:
2003tran9x30.gif (820 bytes)Gross McCleaf Gallery, Philadelphia
1999tran9x30.gif (820 bytes)Art Gallery, Richard Stockton College, Pomona, NJ
1997tran9x30.gif (820 bytes)Katharina Rich Perlow Gallery, New York, NY
1994-93tran9x30.gif (820 bytes)Katharina Rich Perlow Gallery, New York, NY
tran9x30.gif (820 bytes) Noyes Museum, Oceanville, NJ
1993tran9x30.gif (820 bytes)Locks Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
tran9x30.gif (820 bytes) University Art Museum, Widener University, Chester, PA
1992tran9x30.gif (820 bytes)Katharina Rich Perlow Gallery, New York, NY
tran9x30.gif (820 bytes) Ben Shahn Gallery, William Paterson College, Wayne, NJ
1989,86tran9x30.gif (820 bytes)Marian Locks Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
1984,81,78 Art Gallery, Richard Stockton College of New Jersey, Pomona, NJ
1976tran9x30.gif (820 bytes)Soho Center for Visual Artists, New York, NY
1975tran9x30.gif (820 bytes)Fine Arts Gallery, State University of New York, Cortland, NY
1971tran9x30.gif (820 bytes)Hathorn Gallery, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY
1968tran9x30.gif (820 bytes)Indiana University Fine Arts Museum, Bloomington, IN
MAJOR COMMISSIONS:
New Jersey State House Annex (State Capitol Building), Trenton, NJ
Six large scale paintings permanently installed, February 1995
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick, NJ
AgBiotech Center/Foran Hall, Seven large scale paintings permanently installed, September 1995