FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
David Florimbi, Station Crossing
Through October 12, 2007
Frank Pictures Gallery
2525 Michigan Avenue Santa Monica, Begamot Station A-5, CA 90404
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E-mail, Laurie@frankpicturesgallery.com
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David Florimbi, “Big Daddy”, 1998, oil on canvas and paper, 84" x 60".
David Florimbi's Station Crossing, is, according to noted art critic, Donald Kuspit in his 2007 essay on Florimbi's current show at Frank Pictures Gallery at Bergamot Station, "a tour-de-force of painterly handling and emotional expression." The exhibition represents fourteen years of work. Sex, power, and spirituality are Florimbi's basic themes, he gives them modern form and fresh impact, even as he filters them through traditional art. "I think it is the climax of Florimbi's urge to paint existentially", writes Kuspit. Station Crossing is an oblique allusion to the 'Stations of the Cross;' the disturbed movement of more or less tragic figures, now mythical shadows of themselves. The show's title also refers to a point where a souls cross, as some ascend to heaven or descend into hell, and the limbo of waiting for a train that will never arrive.
The show is Florimbi's forth at Frank Pictures Gallery. His work has been the subject of shows at the Contemporary Arts Forum in Santa Barbara, the University Art Museum at UCSB and the Georgetown University Gallery in Washington DC and is represented in many public collections including those of the Marcia Weisman Wing of the Cedars Sinai Medical Center, the Frederic Weisman Foundation and the UCLA Medical Center.
To view images from all four of David Florimbi's exhibitions at Frank Pictures, the entire Donald Kuspit essay on Station Crossing and the full text of reviews in Artweek and other publications please visit http://www.frankpicturesgallery.com/davidflorimbi or contact gallerist Laurie Frank directly at laurie@frankpicturesgallery.com.
