Wednesday, September 28, 2011

David Em



David Em was born in 1952 in Los Angeles. He grew up in South America (Colombia, Venezuela, and Argentina). David studied painting at the Pennsylvania Academy in Philadelphia, he then studied interdisciplinary art at Goddard College and finally and finally he studied film directing at the American FIlm Institute in Hollywood. David's Art style is anything from ordinary, he was one of the first people to make art of out pixels. His art is a mix of photography, film, sculpture, printmaking and digital worlds. He started producing digital art in the 1970's working as an independent artist in research laboratories, including the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and Apple Computer’s Advanced Technology Group. He is the first digital artist to have his papers collected and preserved by the Smithsonian Institution's Archives of American Art. Stylistically, Em's art has connections to surrealism, abstract painting, and experimental film. There are also often landscape and architectural elements. Some pieces feature geometric components, while others are organic in nature.
His work is not considered ordinary mainstream art, and to me personally that makes it exciting and inviting. I like being surprised by things that i have never seen before, or thought possible. It is inspiring and most of all fresh.

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