DAVID SILVERSTEIN
David Silverstein is a multidisciplinary artist based in Connecticut. His work explores a personal relationship with nature, vision, memory, and cross-cultural symbolism through handmade objects and paintings, with a longstanding fascination with folk art and found objects running through the practice.
Silverstein approaches his paintings as objects rather than images. Cotton duck canvas is stretched over pine and cradled in wooden frames he paints by hand, built as an extension of the work rather than a decoration around it. His surfaces borrow from older decorative traditions, including sgraffito, where the drawing is scratched through one layer of paint to reveal the color beneath.