The Royal Treatment

On the Horizon
David King
at KADA Gallery and Frame Shop
An Art Review

  As an artist or anyone actually, it’s best not to be pigeonholed. By trying new things you may actually find another avenue that exceeds your tried-and-true work methods and even become revered for one of your offshoot experimentations.

  The work of David King, currently at Kada Gallery and Frame Shop, is a good example. Here the painter’s oeuvre displays Impressionist and Abstract creations, and with some of his bright, radiant canvasses, even recalls the Fauvists.

  Citrus Sky, (above) is an abstract chalk pastel and acrylic creation. Presenting a canvas filled with yellow, purple, orange and mauve strokes, without an identifying title next to it, it might leave the viewer mystified.

  An oil stick artwork, Clearing, is a dazzling study in color. Vertical strips of different tonalities display a forest in the distance; the horizontal foreground strips are bright layers of yellow, lime green, and a river of blue; blood red and citrus orange completes the color gamut near the canvas’s edge.

  Bridges is another abstract work done in oil stick. A spectrum of blues are in the upper background, yellows dominate the foreground. Only with its title does a horizontal orange line that serves to divide the canvas explain the landscape.

  Of the approximately 40 artworks, only two contain a single person”yet the two works are different versions of the same scene. Night Swimmer I is an oil and acrylic work which shows a man

mid-canvas amid a large body of water, though oddly at sunset or sunrise. More true to its title Night Swimmer II portrays the man amongst the darkened blue sea and ominous storming blue-grey skies
above.

 Originality blossoms within King’s artworks as does the flora he creates.
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On the Horizon continues through December 16. KADA Gallery and Frame Shop is located 2632 W. 8th St., Erie. For more information, visit kadagallery.com.

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