Website

http://www.davidfordart.com

Relationship status

in a relationship

College / University

self-taught

Member type

Artist

If you're an artist, what kind of art do you make?

Conceptual, Drawing, Event, Installation, Painting, Performance, Photography, Sculpture

I am...

interested in the quantum mechanical explanation for my pre-disposition to painting.

About my artwork

David Ford's multimedia installation White Like Me incorporates the florid magic realism of his large-scale paintings, the incisive wit of his photography, and the unpredictability of his performance art. Against a backdrop of fantastical images of celebrity egomania/delusion — Tom Cruise gazing longingly at the night sky, for instance — and an architectural installation evoking the quaint vacuousness of mainstream American culture, Ford deploys a troop of "performers" acting as a militia. The piece's many contradictions combine to illustrate the plight of the skeptical patriot in political dismay. -Shana Nys Dymbrot

Artists I like

Kerry James Marshall
Edward Kienholz
Francis Alyiss

Interests

Culural Interface

What exhibitions are good at the moment?

Kerry James Marshall at Jack Shainman
East Indian Show at the Nerman Museum - Kansas City

The centre of the artworld is

nowhere and everywhere