DAVID ROW (b. 1949)

David Row is an American painter known for his use of irregularly shaped canvases and rich colors. Row has cited the experience of visiting India as a teenager as having a profound impact on his sense of color. “It’s better if I just allow myself to play around with new images until I find ones that are more interesting than others,” he explained. “And I guess I’m more attracted to images that seem a little slippery, that are harder to pin down, whether it’s spatially or in terms of content or symbology or whatever.” Born in 1949 in Portland, ME, he received his BA and MFA from the Yale School of Art, where he studied under Al Held. Moving to New York during the mid-1970s, Row entered into the milieu of a generation of abstract painters that included Ross Bleckner and Mary Heilmann. His works are included in the collections of the Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh, the Brooklyn Museum, and the Cleveland Museum of Art, among others. Row continues to live and work in New York, NY