Relief Artworks from Constructurist David Rubello
The David Rubello Studio is a new site dedicated to showcasing my artwork and
photograms after spending most of my career in academia. While still professionally
involved in higher education art classes, I enjoy spending as much time as I can spare in
my home studio workshop. I invite you to browse my gallery and visit some artist links I
think worth sharing. This site is always a work in progress, so I encourages you to drop
by often. Please go to the contact page, if you would like to send David any comments or
inquire about purchasing any of his artworks. Thank you for stopping by.
Art strives for form and hopes for the illusion of beauty. Art isn't just about making
things, it's about developing ideas, which can inspire beyond mere aesthetics, as light
gets filtered, then fixed, into one's brain sensors. The fact that our eye can perceive so
many different kinds of things is something that I get a lot of inspiration from as I seek
the aesthetic elements present in space, light and mind. The space of the imagination, and
creativity of form, just needs the touch of an artist to inspire the viewer.
I attempt to make something that engages with people even though it's quite static.
They have to visually navigate it from a variety of angles to fully appreciate it . They
respond to my art viscerally, because the level of representation is just light and the
contrasting lines. I get the sense that a lot of people really enjoy the experiences
they've had in viewing my constructive art forms and firmly believe that creating art
invites the viewer into the art object itself, opening them up to the larger ideas invoked
by the piece.
| The Power of Marks Drawing is the way
To see my ideas
Visually expressed
As fixed notations
Directly connected
Coming as part of
First thoughts
On white paper
Making graphite marks
On white paper
I add more until
They become shapes
Shapes forming
Sound like words that
Come from another
Dimension
Perhaps like language
Not understood precisely
Maybe like music
With an open meaning
Gaining volume with
Layers rendering spirit
An energy force
Building structure
I recognize what it is
With no explanation
It belongs to me |
 
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David Rubello gets motivated by Relief Art forms: It was Through my desire to achieve
actual space relationships that I came to three-dimensional constructure painting in 1980.
The relief form, by it's very nature, allows the viewer to experience the artist's work
from different vantage points. Light falling on the form may vary allowing the painted
Constructure a renewal aspect relating to form and color. Becoming aware of the works of
Charles Biederman and Eli Bornstein has been instrumental in motivating my Art and
Photography in this constructive relief direction.
New Life Forms -1990 to
present: In early 1990 I began working on a photographic series entitled
"New Life Forms". These black and white photograms revealed the results of light
interupted by form. The transitions of black and white transparent values possess a
mystery for me. I set out to capture the ambient shadows and possible forms variations
through the cameras eye and darkroom techniques. Constructing abstract art forms in wood,
metals,paper, fabrics holds my attention to this day when transforming light into ever
changing images. |
