David McCullough: Is that Jazz?

March 3 – April 21, 2007

           David McCullough has been painting in Texas for more than 30 years. Mr. McCullough trained at the Boston Institute of the Arts and Kansas City Art Institute, earning an undergraduate degree in studio art. He received a grant and took his family to the Australian outback where he created sand paintings and abstract sculpture and other works. His paintings are concerned with the phenomenon of light in nature from a holistic perspective. During extensive travel throughout the USA he noted this phenomena and its geological spirit in our ecosystem. He utilizes audio taped music of cultures all over this planet to assist him in feeling and understanding the earth’s rhythms, order and color energy. Watercolors, drawings, collage, and poetry are made on site to make note and cross reference feelings in a view of place. Utilizing myth, music, alchemy and color symbolism, McCullough’s paintings attempt to tell a tale about the ecological-tech balance of man in nature. McCullough will also display pages of his poetry in the exhibition; his colorful vibrant strokes on the canvas express jazz and movement. Recent paintings and monoprints convey a sense of incredible energy and vibrancy. McCullough will present a lecture and poetry evening. A special catalogue that will include reproductions of the prints and paintings in the exhibition, a biography of the artist will accompany the exhibition.

McCullough states, “In the last twenty years I have traveled through the ‘canyon circle’ area of the Four Corners (Arizona, Utah, New Mexico and Colorado) noting the color alchemy and geomantic order of place. I have been trying to instill into my vision of nature a spatial quality that best describes her colorful spirit and sacred character.”