David T. Alexander

Landscape, in its raw and most immediate form, is the subject of David Alexander's paintings. At the same time, Alexander insists on bringing us closer to what it is that we don't always look at, to confront us with the objects in and on the land.

A resident of Okanogan Valley, BC, Alexander is a nationally recognized painter whose work is exhibited in galleries across Canada and internationally. He is a graduate of the University of Saskatchewan (MFA 1985) and he has been painting the landscape for the past thirty years.

Typically, Alexander's view of the land seems to move close up, emphasizing the roughness and rawness of the surface of things - rocks, trees and glaciers. In his larger works he takes these views and tips them so that the sky is diminished to an almost insignificant strip. This unusual perspective leads us to an abstract view of the land where all our usual measures for balance and recognition are thrown off.

Moving On To Cathedrals - 2009
acrylic on canvas, 52 in x 58 in