David Kapp Go, 2008, oil on linen, 50″ x 48″
Another more visceral cityscape painter in David Kapp whose gestural paint seems to combine sculpting with music, tracing intervals and rhythms of urban movements. Your eye is lead to dance along with his snappy tunes.
You could make a case on why this isn’t perceptual painting, that it is more abstract and about other art than working from observation. Maybe so but I like to think of it as he is working from the memory of the feelings of crowds moving as viewed from above – perception isn’t just about vision, it includes all the senses.
Chinatown (Age of Man) , ©2008, oil on linen, 60” x 48”
Regardless it is about strong painting and keeping an eye out for the leading painters of the urban scene.
David Kapp shows at the Santa Monica Ruth Bachofner Gallery and has also shown in Boston’s Alpha gallery.
Painting Perceptions was started in 2009 by Larry Groff to promote the ideas, practice and experience of painters working from observation in a modernist vein from around the world through interviews, essays, videos and community. It later evolved to include imagination-based and abstract painting as well.
I think you mean David Kapp not Ben, he is a terrific painter
Yikes! Thanks for picking up that mistake Stephen. I must have mangled his name when I copied and pasted some material from the previous post which was Ben Aronson – which would explain where the Ben came from. My apologies to David for such a bone-headed move and not seeing that.