David Kapp: Teeming

The urban environment provides a density of experience that has inspired visual artists for centuries. In the work of David Kapp, streets, buildings, forms of conveyance and the people that occupy them embody industry, social interaction, and purpose (everybody is on their way to somewhere). No architectural form, model of car or human face is rendered with specificity. It is not Kapp’s intention that we recognize the details, but rather that we see the city as a constellation of sorts. Inventive color, spatial exaggeration, and unconventional vantage points work together to create images that convey the rhythmic thrum of the city.

Born and raised in New York City, Kapp received a MFA from Queens College, New York and a BFA from Windham College, Putney, VT. His work has been exhibited throughout the U.S. and Europe and is included in numerous collections including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; the National Academy Museum, New York and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Kapp divides his time between New York City and Friendship, Maine.