Dislocated Histories - series

Kensett - 2015 - Oil on black galvanized metal - 40x60 in. / 102x152 cm.

Half Portrait in Orange - 2015 - Oil on black galvanized metal - 34x27 in. / 86x69 cm.

Restructured Still Life with Lemons and Crayfish - 2015 - Oil on black galvanized metal - 40x60 in. / 102x152 cm.

17th Century Gentleman with Matrix - 2015 - Oil on black galvanized metal - 34x27 in. / 86x69 cm.

Countess of Arundel with Matrix - 2015 - Oil on black galvanized metal - 34x27 in. / 86x69 cm.

Maria Gonzaga of Lorraine - oil & acrylic on galvanized, heavy-gauge coated aluminum 80 x 60 inches / 203 x 152 cm

Sir John Mennes - oil & acrylic on galvanized, heavy-gauge coated aluminum 60 x 40 inches / 152 x 102 cm

Portrait of a Gentleman 1560s - oil & acrylic on galvanized, heavy-gauge coated aluminum 60 x 40 inches / 152 x 102 cm - SOLD

DAVID CRISMON

Ecuador River - 2014 - Oil on black galvanized metal - 40x60 in. / 102x152 cm. - SOLD

David Crismon

"I felt it was appropriate to use an 'old' process, such as painting, to speak about a 'new' processes 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.

"Technology renders history as something endlessly under construction. The past is subject to investigation, re–interpretation, splicing and editing. Consequently, various distortions and interferences of information occur.

"By displacing images from the past, into the present, my intention is to accentuate these changes; reconstructing various historical works where some information has been duplicated, altered or is missing altogether.

"Attempts to construct history into a reliable understanding of the world form a constantly shifting composite. an tenuous, fragmented, image where neither the past nor the present exist without the interference of the other."

-David Crismon

DAVID CRISMON - CV - (PDF)

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