Short Circuits

At Winchester Galleries on Broad Street

Opening: Saturday, May 9, 2009 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm

Exhibition continues until May 30, 2007

David Craven is a prominent Canadian abstract artist who received his art education at the Ontario College of Art and who, since 1980, has been living in New York City.  His style is graphic but painterly, and since c1974 has often featured white negative space.  The drawing aspect, though individually expressed, places him in a broad category occupied by such artists as Juan Miro, Brice Marden and Jonathan Lasker.

Craven is not cynical enough to be a post-modernist: he has too much affection for his elders, for example Jackson Pollock in terms of all-over field. ‘You have to find a way around Pollock,’ states Craven, whose solution has been a wired or mechanical imagery much like Al Held’s.

Craven’s inventiveness and wit astound.