David Shull

David Shull’s work is a response to the effects and modes of manipulation applied both overtly and inadvertently throughout our lives. He is interested in how the brain adapts and accepts, and the repercussions of repressed motions and emotions. Seeking sentimentalities, or short- cuts to deeper places in the viewer’s mind, David’s art employs many forms and medias to create alternate realities; forcing the notion that their “regular” reality may have farcical roots. His “alternate realities” are often made up of emotive modernist forms that subtly attempt to re-write a history at odds with its utopian goals.
Made up of sculptures, paintings, photographs, prints, drawings, video, and performance, David’s formal limitations come from a complicated place. He treats his creativity as a conduit for communication, from an input to a tilted, forceful output; inhaling and exhaling.