David McBride

My work uses a lot of photographic imagery and deals with the way that the avant-garde constructed art mediums from their formal elements.  I'm interested in a way to understand this act of construction as myth-making, so a lot of the imagery in the paintings is drawn from subjects that represent historical interpretations of various myths.  The process of making the paintings has its own references, and the abstract paintings in my work are about articulating that process.  Where the image-based paintings evoke a kind of picture code, an archive of the uncanny that suggests the contingency of any image, the abstract paintings utilize the encoded terms of abstract painting in a kind of absurdist representation of avant-garde painting.