David Row is an abstract painter and object maker interested in the complex relationship between the viewer and the painted object and in the object’s relationship to the architecture it inhabits.
Row believes that every work of art is a fragment of a much larger conceptual space; that the art is a catalyst for experience, both perceptual and sensual; and that every viewer brings a unique perspective.
Row aims to unfix the static image of painting, to introduce subtle choices in how the works can be read, none more or less “true” than any other, thereby reflecting back on how the viewer generates meaning. In his intuitive, phenomenological approach to painting, as Colin Edgerton has written, Row forces internal perception and external matter to collide.