Dutch Portrait With Four Yellow Coordinates40 x 52 inches, 2024
In 1982 he got a BFA from the Kansas City Art Institute (Painting) and in 1990 he graduated with an MFA from the University of Oklahoma (Painting).
"I felt it was appropriate to use an 'old' process, such as painting, to speak about a 'new' process or technologies. Digital imaging, scans and photocopies alter and disseminate visual information heavily influencing how modern experience is perceived. By using and quoting from historical sources, I want to show history altering into a kind of abstract data."David Crismon uses traditional painting to explore how digital processes reshape our view of history. By altering and reconstructing historical works, he highlights the fragmented, ever-evolving narrative of the past and present as they constantly redefine one another.
"I felt it was appropriate to use an 'old' process, such as painting, to speak about a 'new' process or technologies. Digital imaging, scans and photocopies alter and disseminate visual information heavily influencing how modern experience is perceived. By using and quoting from historical sources, I want to show history altering into a kind of abstract data."David Crismon uses traditional painting to explore how digital processes reshape our view of history. By altering and reconstructing historical works, he highlights the fragmented, ever-evolving narrative of the past and present as they constantly redefine one another.