David Shapiro
About The Artist
David Shapiro was born in 1944 in Brooklyn, New York. His paintings and prints, according to the author Mason Riddle, “comprise a highly personal language of signs and symbols. Circles, spirals, dots, wave and knot patterns, stylized flames and textures resonate on richly hued, tactile surfaces of Nepalese and Japanese papers, burlap, nylon screening, and canvas evoking a subtle mood of contemplation. Suggesting constellations of heavenly bodies, or human thoughts, these works appear to visually and psychologically, if not mythically, intersect, overlap, and merge with one another.” Likened to be the visual equivalent of a mantra, Shapiro develops series of work based upon Eastern traditions and concepts, such as “Mudra” (Buddhist hand symbols) and “Savasan” (the lying-down posture in yogic practices).
“Shapiro’s shapes hum with a paradoxical energy, alternately attracting and repelling one another like magnets. That tension brings the colors to life, high-lighting the wealth of surface and sub-surface textures that Shapiro weaves together in his subtle, strange, mesmerizing works,” writes Ferdinand Protzman in his Washington Post review.
Shapiro’s work is included in many public and private collections including The Museum of Modern Art, the Solomon Guggenheim Museum; the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; the Cleveland Museum of Art, and the Kunsthalle der Stadt in Nuremberg, Germany
David Shapiro
“Clearing 35”
Medium: Oil on canvas
Size: 11 x 22 in.
Provenance: Estate of David Shapiro
Condition: Excellent
David Shapiro
“Origin & Return 92”
Medium: Acrylic on canvas
Size: 22 x 88 in.
Condition: Excellent
Price: On Request
David Shapiro
“Origin & Return 133”
Medium: Acrylic on canvas
Date: 2010
Size: 24 x 96 in.
Condition: Excellent
Price: On Request
David Shapiro
“Clearing 1 (Vertical)”
Medium: Intaglio, relief
Year: 2014
Size: 39 1/4 x 16 3/4 in.
Edition of 30
Signed, titled and numbered on verso.
Provenance: Estate of David Shapiro
A.P. 7 of 8
Condition: Excellent
Price:
David Shapiro
“Clearing (Vertical) 2”
Medium: Intaglio, colored pencil
Year: 2014.
Size: 39 x 16.75 in.
Edition: 30
Condition: Excellent.
Price: On Request
David Shapiro
“Clearing 4”
Lithography, collograph, etching
2005
Edition: 24
Dimensions: 20 by 40 in.
A.P.
Condition: Excellent
Price: On Request
David Shapiro
“Clearing 5”
Lithography, collograph, etching
2005
Edition: 24
Dimensions: 20 by 40 in.
A.P.
Condition: Excellent
Price: On Request
David Shapiro
“Clearing 6”
Lithography, collograph, etching
2005
Edition: 24
Dimensions: 20 by 40 in.
A.P.
Condition: Excellent
Price: On Request
David Shapiro
“Clearing 7”
Lithography, collograph, etching
2005
Edition: 24
Dimensions: 20 by 40 in.
A.P.
Condition: Excellent
Price: On Request
David Shapiro
“Clearing 9”
Medium: Etching
Year: 2005
Size: 12 x 24 in.
Edition: 18
Condition: Excellent
Price: On Request
David Shapiro
“Clearing 12”
Polymer intaglio/Softground etching/Drypoint printed on Hoon Amate (Mexico) and Okawara (Japan) paper
2007
12 by 24 in. Edition of 14
SOLD
David Shapiro
“Clearing 14 08”
Photopolymer intaglio
2008
15 by 30 in.
Edition of 20
Condition: Excellent
Price: On Request
David Shapiro
“Clearing 15 08”
Photopolymer intaglio
2008
15 by 30 in.
Edition of 20
Condition: Excellent
Price: On Request
David Shapiro
“Clearing 18”
Medium: Collagraph, Relief, Lithography, Handcoloring on handmade paper
Year: 2014
Size: 24 by 48 in.
Edition of 11.
Thumbprint signed.
Condition: Excellent
Price: On Request
David Shapiro
“Clearing 19”
Medium: Relief, Collagraph, Photolitho, Handcoloring, Handmade Paper
Year: 2014
Size: 24 x 48 in.
Edition: Various of 11
Thumbprint signed.
Condition: Excellent
Price: On Request
David Shapiro
“Clearing 20”
Collagraph, Relief, Lithography, Handcoloring on handmade paper
Year: 2014
Size: 24 by 48 in.
Edition of 10
Thumbprint signed.
Condition: Excellent
Price: On Request
David Shapiro
“Clearing 25-06-P”
Year: 2006
Medium: Unique Acrylic on handmade paper
Size: 12 x 24 in.
Signed, titled and numbered on verso.
Provenance: Estate of David Shapiro
Condition: Mint
Price: On Request
David Shapiro
“Clearing 29-06-P”
Year: 2006
Medium: Unique Acrylic on handmade paper
Size: 12 x 24 in.
Signed, titled and numbered on verso.
Provenance: Estate of David Shapiro
Condition: Mint
Price: On Request
David Shapiro
“Clearing 35-06-P”
Medium: Acrylic on paper
Size: 12 x 24 in.
Condition: Excellent
Price: On Request
David Shapiro
“Clearing 50-06-P”
Year: 2006
Medium: Unique Acrylic on handmade paper
Size: 12 x 24 in.
Signed, titled and numbered on verso.
Provenance: Estate of David Shapiro
Condition: Mint
Price: On Request