Michael David

Artist Michael David discusses the inspiration and processes that have manifested his use of mirrors in his most recent series of work The Mirror Stage, featured in his forthcoming exhibition titled Nighttime with Dreams and Mirrors. David’s innovative and audacious use of materials and iconography — often in specific reference to canonical works and steeped in the broad history of image-making — has long defined his painting practice. However, as he continues to investigate the application of mirrored glass, obsidian, and resin, the physicality of David's process reaches a heightened immediacy. Densely adorned with reflective pieces of glass, including black glass on occasion, David's works emphatically reflect both the artist and the audience, effectively grappling with the concept of existentialism that has informed his nearly four-decade-long career.