David Post

It has been written that “David Post comes by his feeling for art naturally,” his father and mother being a painter and sculptor respectively (Sacramento Bee, Sunday, July 25, 1999). Although he began as “an abstract painter doing solidly resolved compositions with subtle and complex color relationships,” he later “began doing representational paintings that addressed new subject matter while retaining his concerns for strong color and composition.” As can be viewed on this website, his subject matter spans landscape, still-life, figure, and abstract compositions. His work is characterized by “painterly brushwork” and “complex color relationship’s” and “is marked by passages of suave delicacy.” His paintings are not confined to a predominate palette or color scheme. Thus, descriptions of individual paintings may vary substantially in tone. For example,

“the geometric complexities of the façade of a cream-colored building, making a composition that reads representationally but emphasizes the triangles, trapezoids and arched forms of the architecture, as well as an arching arcade of shrubbery in the foreground. Post plays off the dense, dark green of the shrubbery’s foliage against the creamy, almost fleshy tones of the building.”