david shevlino

NEW PAINTINGS
FEBRUARY 1 - MARCH 4, 2006

DFN Gallery is pleased to present an exhibition of new paintings by David Shevlino.  Shevlino's recent work explores the physical relationship between urban landscapes and the objects that fill them, or, alternately, that leave them startlingly vacant.  He conducts these explorations using the unique vocabulary and iconography of the cityscape and its quotidian flow.  When stripped from their context, these otherwise mundane images are transfigured into emblems of the rhythmic pulse of city life.

Realism and abstraction inform the artist's work, and Shevlino fuses the two with a painterly finesse that hearkens back to the Pennsylvania Impressionist School.  With an emphasis on the expansive, urban sky and on the play of light upon streets, cars, and buildings, the artist reveals the drama and beauty in every day man-made vistas.  In paintings such as Midtown Dusk and On Ramp, Shevlino assumes an aerial perspective to reveal the grid-like nature of his subject matter.  These "Mondrian-esque" patterns of vehicles, buildings, and empty spaces are depicted using thickly-applied, broad bands of color and send the viewer far beyond the confines of the canvas.

A native of New Jersey, David Shevlino studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine arts and the Art Students League of New York.  He received his BFA from the University of Pennsylvania, and has exhibited extensively throughout the United States.  This is his first solo show with DFN.

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