About

David Steindl is a visual artist who makes figurative drawings and painting sourced from a wide range of sources including observation,  art history, film stills, and personal photographs. Over the past few years, David has worked across multiple genres of painting, looking for ways to both operate within and bend each genre to explore a range of ideas. His most recent body of work focuses on subverting the idea of an untouched landscape or vista through a series of landscape paintings and drawings. This work is characterized by distortions to realistic form and space created through a lengthy process of combining drawings and photographs into reference material to draw and paint from. Earlier work from the solo exhibition "Hot Beer, Cold Planet" at SVA's Flatiron gallery used the Bacchanal genre of European painting as a departure point to compare with contemporary American life. The work depicted figures amid a climate-disaster ridden American suburb, where they responded with a range of responses from fear to euphoria.