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Knoedler & Company Michael David Exhibition Promotion |
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Michael David built a reputation for abstract, geometrically shaped paintings that were constructed of oil and wax on deep wooden supports such as these works for the Georgia series. |
For more than a decade, David's overriding concern had been to infuse richly painted abstract compositions with multiple layers of meaning by embedding simple, suggestive shapes and symbols. Around 1989 he started to look for a new icon or image that would have a sense of personal power and meaning and focused on the female nude. David took photographs of nude females using a 20 x 24-inch Polaroidthe resultant images became The Jackie Paintings, which were featured in the 1995 exhibition The Poured Image at Knoedler. For the 10-1/2 x 26" accordion fold announcement, we featured The Four Jackies and their lush, translucent wax-embedded images. The Jackies were very successful and well received outside of New Yorkhowever, changing his style precipitated a fissure with Knoedler & Company, that eventually ended their relationship. Tan Jackie, 1992-94 Oil and wax on wood, 84 x 44 inches |