About
Painting With Images
Chicago artist David Loew has earned a reputation as an accomplished artist, and photographer. In the commercial world he has worked with companies as varied as Playboy magazine, HBO and Miramax Films; but he is best known in the publishing industry.
During his career he has created cover art for over 200 titles, among the authors are such notables as Stephen King, Joyce Carol Oates, Mary Higgens Clark, Ruth Rendell, Len Deighton and Derek Van Arman, to name a few. As a fine artist, he has exhibited in numerous group and one-man shows in both the United States and Europe, where he lived for several years. His most recent influence is China where he spent a month last summer, soon to return for a longer stay.
“I have described my work at various times as surreal, allegorical, deconstructed and speculative realism. The world is my pallet. I love it’s texture, the tangled roots of an ancient tree, the complexity and color of rusted metal, the pealing paint on an abandoned church wall and the unique sensuality of a woman skin.
I have been influenced as much by the story tellers of film and television as I have by other painters. I grew up with the Twilight Zone. Blade Runner and the gothic, endless night of Dark City have become part of my dystopic worldview. As for painters, I love the lonely interiors of Edward Hopper, the inchoate cities of Reginald Marsh, surreal worlds of Magritte, Bosch and Bruegel and will always love the romance with light of the impressionists.”
David Loew