Artist Spotlight

David Rohn

Name: David Rohn

City: Miami

Birthplace: USA

Artistic Medium: Paint, papier mache, video performance

How did you get started?
Drawing, and loving the art that I saw in museums and elsewhere.

Who or what are your influences?
Art of the past, Giorgione, Francis Bacon, Edward Hopper, David Smith and Vermeer

What inspires your work?
What is perceptible but hidden

How does Miami/South Florida influence your work?
Miami is an uninhibited surreal mess

How would you describe your work?
Maybe it's a surreal mess too, but it's really an attempt at organizing my own thoughts and feelings---including examining the relationship between two and three dimensional representation and reality; art work as an object of value/desire versus artwork as an examination of perception, emotion and ideas; and as an object of self-expression versus a document of visual/spatial research.

What has been the most unusual reaction to your work from the public?
Confusion

What would you like to achieve as an artist?
Self realization, fame and fortune

Upcoming shows:
Saturday, April 14, 7:30 to 10:30 p.m.
Buena Vista Building
180 NE 39th Street, Miami Design District
The exhibition will be open from Monday, Wednesday and Friday, 1:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m., April 16 thru May 9.

Where is your work available?
www.davidrohn.net   rohndvd@bellsouth.net

Untitled Tent Painting oil tempura on canvas 24" x 24" 2006 House oil tempura on canvas composite 24"x 24" 2007 Untitled figure Painting oil tempura on composite canvases 18" x 24" 2007 Figure and Flower Painting oil tempura on composite canvas 24" x 36" 2007 Untitled Puppet Painting oil tempura on canvas 18" x 42" 2007 Boxer Painting oil on canvas 36" x 48" 2006

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