David Livingston
Primary Medium: Found material
Other media: Mixed media, Drawing, Film / Video, Performance
Tags : humor, performance, sculpture, organic, fabric
Erector Square
Email: livingstonmeister (at) gmail (dot) com
Website: http://davidlivingstonart.com
Artist Statement
I begin a project when an idea reinforced with a feeling emerges. This feeling navigates between fear, anger, and desire. It motivates me to execute the idea, and it sustains me until the idea has been completed.
For the series of sculptures I have been working on over the past year, I use a pulpy mud-like substance to hold the twigs in place and build my structures into organic shapes. The end result evokes something in between a termite mound, a fossilized skeleton, and a totemic tribal structure. The viewer can see the growth patterns of the branches in the twists and turns of the sculpture.
My drawings are more than just the residuals of the sculptures. They take on an added meaning and capture an immediacy of expression that the slow process of making the sculptures cannot.
Other media: Mixed media, Drawing, Film / Video, Performance
Tags : humor, performance, sculpture, organic, fabric
Erector Square
Email: livingstonmeister (at) gmail (dot) com
Website: http://davidlivingstonart.com
Artist Statement
I begin a project when an idea reinforced with a feeling emerges. This feeling navigates between fear, anger, and desire. It motivates me to execute the idea, and it sustains me until the idea has been completed.
For the series of sculptures I have been working on over the past year, I use a pulpy mud-like substance to hold the twigs in place and build my structures into organic shapes. The end result evokes something in between a termite mound, a fossilized skeleton, and a totemic tribal structure. The viewer can see the growth patterns of the branches in the twists and turns of the sculpture.
My drawings are more than just the residuals of the sculptures. They take on an added meaning and capture an immediacy of expression that the slow process of making the sculptures cannot.
Selected Works
|  Worm Study 10 - 2012 - Gouache on paper - 22 x 30 IN  Worm Study 9 - 2012 - Gouache on paper - 22 x 30 IN  Worm Study 5 - 2011 - Gouache on paper - 22 x 30 IN  Bow - 2011 - India ink on paper - 30 x 22 IN  Overhang 2 - 2011 - India ink on paper - 19 x 24 IN  Pyramid - 2011 - India Ink on paper - 19 x 24 In  Worm Documentation 7 - 2011 - Digital print - 18 x 12 IN  Worm Documentation 8 - 2011 - Digital print - 12 x 18 IN  Worm Documentation 9 - 2011 - Digital print - 18 x 12 IN  Worm Documentation 10 - 2011 - Digital print - 18 x 12 IN This is documentation from a performance entitled Worm, where I floated a 16 FT long worm-like form down the Lamoille River in Vermont. The sculpture is made of wool, cotton, polyester, and rayon that was hand sewn together and stuffed with styrofoam and polyester filler. |
Artist Bio
Education
2011 MFA, Sculpture, Pratt Institute
2005 BFA, Studio Art, Kenyon College
Exhibition Record
2011 Governors Island Art Fair, Governors Island, New York
"Dukkha," In Rivers Gallery, Brooklyn, New York
"Fleeting Objects," Hunter College/Times Square Gallery, New York, New York
2010 "What is Sustainability? Pratt Students Respond," The Schafler Gallery, Brooklyn, New York
2009 Pratt Fall Open Studios Exhibition, Curator: Pratt Artist's League, Brooklyn New York
2008 Fall Open Studios, Morgan Fine Arts Building, Brooklyn, New York
Summer Open Studios, Morgan Fine Arts Building, Brooklyn, New York
2007 COME PLAY WITH US, Bar Spudnik, Brooklyn, New York
2005 BFA Thesis Exhibition, Kenyon College
Residencies
2011 Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT
Professional Experience
2012 - 12 Visitor Services and Installation Intern, SculptureCenter, Long Island City, New York
2008 - 09 Editorial Associate, MutualArt.com, New York, New York
2007 - 08 Education Department, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New York