| ARTIST BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH: | David Svendsen’s oil paintings and portraits explore and portray the emotive qualities of the human condition. His work focuses on engaging and confronting the viewer’s perceptions, experiences, and judgements by offering a glimpse into the different lives of others.
Svendsen’s Incommunicado series of portraits were created over a period of seven years during the 1990s. He was concerned with examining physical, psychological, and sociological “prisoners”, and the nightmarish state of not being able to, allowed to, or wanting to communicate with others. The portraits he painted included everyone from patients to soldiers, exploring the unanswerable question of how, and if, we trap ourselves into our own created worlds.
Svendsen received his commercial art diploma from Mohawk College in Ontario. He then continued his art education with a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of Alberta in 1989, and his Bachelor of Education from the University of Alberta in 1995. He has participated in group exhibitions throughout Edmonton and Calgary, including at Harcourt House Gallery, Latitude 53, Triangle Gallery, and at The Works Festival. His art can be found in various private collections throughout Alberta. |