David Eubank

There is no picture to display. David Eubank PO Box 87 1011 10th St.W Columbia Falls, MT 59912 Phone: 406-253-4389 Contact: Send Email Web Site Address: http://eubank.home.bresnan.net Artist Statement Life changes my art continuously. I read an article recently in Art News about the Multiple Personalities of contemporary artists, and I thought-- that’s me! Really I just have too many interests to stay on one road, I have to travel as many roads as I can and I will say that it is this approach to my art .The modern world is the driving force behind these multiple personality artists, it is the rapid pace of life at cyber speeds that take us to so many places along our personal roads. Technology has changed the way we approach life and work. There are many of those among us that resist this ADD life style while most young people are fully engaged. Some would say that the attention span of the modern youth is shorter in all respects, but I think it is just expanded. I watch my own children who are amazingly successful, far more than I ever was at their age, and they are multi-tasking. They manage their studies with text messaging and web searching while listening to music or watching a movie, all at the same time. They are active and busy mentally and physically. The new world is a much more complex place. I look for ways to insert my art into this framework of modern activity. I have tried creating websites as art and have found real promise in the activity. The Open Sign Project, an experimental website, was an experiment that looked at a common theme in the global urban landscape, the Open Sign. The website operated for one year. I linked the site to search engines so that when a searcher looked or Googled for Open Signs it would pop up on their search browser. But when people searched for a business by name that was listed in the photo record, the site came up in their search, also. Suddenly more people were looking at the installation, because they happened on to the Art. Several thousand viewers looked through the gallery and accompanying text. I put art out as a stumbling block and they bumped into it and looked for a while. I am not sure what my next cyber project will be just yet. The visual arts I think has become more important than ever before, because in this fast paced global marketplace a need to rest at a welcome oasis is needed more today than in the past. A place to ponder a focused gaze into a familiar work of art hanging on one’s wall brings sense of place to the art patron. As I tramp my way through Glacier National Park, doing my day job I have seen the most amazing sights, a landscape that is un-compared to any other. Each place has its own unique attributes and as an artist that is subject matter. With the threat of environmental catastrophe perhaps the Landscape painting will have a new place in the hearts of human beings and I hope that is soon. In Glacier the effects of Global Warming are present and observable to anyone who cares to look. I don’t know why it is getting warmer but the evidence is in front of my eyes. I have been lucky enough to stand on a glacier and look at the bugs, leaves and other natural material trapped in the ice for millennium. Our glaciers are shrinking every minute of everyday and have been for who knows how long. Maybe it is the way it is supposed to be, but at any rate it is the way it is. The Landscape is disappearing at an alarming rate. Development threatens every inch of space on the globe. Poor resource management threatens society as it exists today and will determine the society of tomorrow. Walt Disney’s Tomorrow Land never talked about the future we seem to be heading towards. So painting is a rest stop a place to ponder unformed thoughts and ideas about where you are. The Landscape for me is a study of where I have been, I paint what I feel more so than what I see, though the two are married within me as the artist. That multiple personality continues in the search mode within my hard disc of a brain looking and exploring for the next idea, the next artwork or the next way to make art, it is an American thing a Pioneer thing, we are the descendants of special people who took great risks with their lives and acted on their ideas, we should act on ours even if we risk stepping outside the bracket that frames the art world.

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