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Dr. David M. Tripp
is Teacher of Art History and Philosophy at Martin High School, Arlington,
TX, and Adjunct Professor of Religion and Humanities at Texas Wesleyan
University. For the past fifteen years, he has developed his watercolor
and collage theory to embrace yesterday's communities and intellectual
heroes kept alive by our visual memories and academic sentiments.
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David is a native Missourian,
growing up in St. Louis, sojourning with grandparents in rural southeast
Missouri, and studying art in rural northeast Missouri. He has lived
in Texas these past thirty years. His watercolor subjects are drawn
from a host of "recollections" (he was born in '54, hence the title of
the web site) that comprise cities, small towns, and rural stretches throughout
the midwest and southwest, particularly old Route 66. Almost none
of his compositions are from a single site. Rather, each painting
includes buildings and objects from multiple towns, combined into a single
composition to depict Anytown, USA. If anyone is interested in knowing
where the subjects are geographically located, please click the tab to
"visit with the artist." David finds inspiration in the art of Edward
Hopper and Andrew Wyeth, along with the writings of Marcel Proust and William
Wordsworth. These geniuses, along with others, he regards as kindred
spirits in the way that they were frequently surprised by the revelatory
powers of objects and primal memories from the past.
Previous Galleries
(in chronological order
dating back to 1993):
Courtyard Gallery
(Arlington)
Castleberry Gallery
(Arlington)
Upstairs Gallery (Arlington)
Stairwell Fine Arts
Gallery (Hillsboro)
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