"main street usa", 2008, Silksceen and acrylic on Archival Paper, 22" x 30" unframed

DAVID WARMENHOVEN
ARTIST STATEMENT
“my work is a diary of life…..my life……and life around me……past, present, and future…..the way I see it……”

I was born into a typical middle class America in a time of contrast. Major influences are the Saturday morning cartoons I grew up with as a child to the street art that I see daily all around me. I like experimenting with absurd and mundane words and images of my youth in the 70’s and 80’s, and, applying them coherently to create art that is inventive. I hope to add new twist or angle on the subject in each piece…..to observe, what is so easy to overlook, in the movement of everyday life. An injection of the whimsical side of life and leaving “serious” behind. I want to convey emotion through selection of color and expression of line and form in each piece that I create. Working on multiple pieces at a time so that the energy and consistency of the medium experimentation flows from one piece to the next and bringing heredity and a melting of left brain and right brain to the canvas. Always evolving, my art is a product of pure necessity. It is well thought out, but, initiated spontaneously and applied in a quick orchestrated movement……it is raw and open, but, it is me, the way I think and create.
BIG BANG THEORY......
art was not to be a real part of my life until I picked up a paint brush in 2000 at the age of 33 and began selling art on “ ebay.”…….. Since then my art has been in numerous Galleries and Museums, in Group, Invitational, Juried, and Solo Art Shows I started selling paintings and drawings on Ebay in 2000 and stopped in 2004. Selling via the internet has allowed my art to be displayed and collected by a worldwide audience in both Private and Corporate Art Collections in: Japan, United Kingdom (UK), Ireland, Australia, Canada, Germany, Belgium, France, Italy, Portugal, New York City, Philadelphia, Chicago, Cleveland, Houston, Seattle, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Detroit, and in little towns you may not have ever heard of.