A new show by Brooklyn aritist David Konigsberg is always a cause for celebration. An artist whose paintings and prints I adore, his new show,   OVERLAND, opens at Chelsea’s Allen Sheppard Gallery opening on November 3rd. Well worth the trip to Manhattan.

Allen Sheppard Gallery
530 West 25th Street
3rd Floor
Thursday, November 3, 2005
6-8 PM

Margaret Neill, curator, Kentler International Drawing Space, Brooklyn NY, wrote this about his work, and included him in a 2002 show called "4-Sight."

"David Konigsberg bridges the divide between art and real life in narrative paintings and works on paper that are both objective and conceptual. His style is soft and approachable, and he invites the viewer into an appealing pictorial landscape. Konigsberg comes to his art from the point of view of a writer and brings literary traditions to painting in the form of reoccurring symbols and characters. These take the form of airships, swimmers, men in suits and other figures, acting singly or in groups.

Nature is usually the backdrop, but sometimes it takes center stage in landscapes such as "Field Across the Road" and "Cloud Like Plummeting Sheep." His technique of using creamy paint scumbled over a warm ground is especially evident in works in which image and ground are embedded in an atmospheric space. His use of surface is also apparent in works on paper, including "Farm Rows" and "Snap, with Friend," two monoprints that have been layered with pastel.

Konigsberg’s work occupies a nether world of image and memory in his very personal narratives, which are not meant to be deciphered but experienced as emotional possibilities. As viewers, we become involved in the artist’s drama, a universal one, of what it means to be human. For Konigsberg, the path is pleasurable and visually enticing, and a journey through his work is worthwhile."