2011 Artist Nominee Gallery

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Artist Statement
I am interested in deconstructing images. Simplifying surfaces into color and form. They begin with simple ideas, objects, or memories, like flowers from my mother’s garden or a stranger on the street. I take pictures or find images of these things. I then manipulate them on the computer. Blurring them, changing the colors, and adding marks. These manipulated images become the surfaces for my paintings. They create an obstacle to play within. They give structure to the freedom of the marks. The only evidence of the original image is in the titles. Instincts drive the mark making. I place gestures, collage materials, draw and tape on top of the photographic images, creating a relationship between the reality of the photo versus the reality of the paint. Questioning the illusion of both. I draw inspiration from calligraphy, pattern making, graffiti, the power and interpretation of color, as well as texture. The marks take on an energy. They open the images up to interpretation, non-objectivity, and abstraction.

CV
David M. Mramor
37 1/2 Allen Street
NY,NY 10002
Cell: (440) 223-7446
Email: dmramor@gmail.com

Website: davidmramor.com

EDUCATION

2008 Master of Fine Arts
School of Visual Arts, NYC, NY
2006 Bachelor of Fine Arts, Painting
Ohio University, Athens, OH

EXHIBITIONS

2011
Youth Group Gallery , "Mother Nature is Pregnant
for the Third Time" , Brooklyn, NY
Marianne Boesky Gallery , "Rema Hort Mann
Foundation Show" , NY, NY

2010
Jack Shainman Gallery , "Drawing Show" , NY, NY
SE Gallery , “Drawing Show” , Sweden
Darling Foundry , “A Minus Suitcase” , Montreal,
Canada
Youth Group Gallery , “Haiti”, Brooklyn, NY
The Kitchen, "Galli" , NY, NY

2009
Brain Factory , “A Minus Suitcase” , Seoul, South
Korea
Like the Spice Gallery , “Civil Union” ,
Brooklyn, NY
Postmasters Gallery , “Don’t Flee the Art
Market”, NY, NY
Paradise Project, Madison Square Park, New York
Like the Spice Gallery ,“Off the Clock” ,
Brooklyn, NY
AAF, New York , NY

2008
Jack the Pelican , “A Minus Suitcase” , Brooklyn,
NY
Plus Gallery , “Vis-a-Visage” , Denver, CO
Visual Arts Gallery , “Cenacle: Reverie
Refurbishing Revelry and
Vice Versa” , NY, NY
Gallery XIV , “A Politic” , Boston, MA
Massimo Audiello , “C’mon shake it!-ah ah, Check
it!-ooh ooh,
New York, NY

2007
Visual Arts Gallery , “Animal” , New York, NY
Artist Space , “Drawing Show” , New York, NY
Galapagos Artist Space , “Occupancy”, Brooklyn, NY
West 21st Gallery , “Open Secret”, New York, NY

PRESS

2009
“A Minus Suitcase” , City Gallery, City Newspaper, Seoul, South Korea

“A Traveling Art: A Minus Suitcase” , MISULSEGYE, Monthly Art Magazine, Seoul, South Korea

“Civil Union” , Artlog; Art and Culture in Real Time

“Civil Union; Jenny Morgan and David Mramor” ArtCat;
Williamsburg / Greenpoint / Bushwick

“Minutiae” , blog article by Nathan Abels

2008
tkartspace, Online Art Magazine , “Eva Jung and David Mramor”
by Jaclyn Meloche