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Artist David Kapp - Paintings, Works On Paper, Prints, Biography.
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Artist David Kapp - Paintings, Works On Paper, Prints,...
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David Kapp is best known for his paintings of the...
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Artist David Kapp - Paintings, Works On Paper, Prints,...
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David Kapp is known for expressionistic oil paintings of street scenes that capture the dynamic spirit of his native New York City. Graphic images of pedestrians rushing about in a blur, bright speeding headlights contrasted by a dark night sky, and …
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David Kapp. Kapp was born and raised in New York City and continues to live there to this day. He is married to the artist Cecily Kahn, daughter of the artists Wolf Kahn and Emily Mason. Kapp earned his BFA from Windham College, Vermont and his MFA from Queens College, New York.
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Jul 4, 2021 · David Kapp is best known for his paintings of the contemporary urban landscape. His paintings have been described by Ken Johnson in the New York Times as having "a dreamy, mildly hallucinatory air and a mood of Hopperesque melancholy," reflecting the harsh kinetic beauty of the city itself.
The streets of New York City are the inspiration for New York based painter David Kapp. He paints the frenzied existence of urban life with an intense yet frugal economy of brushwork. The artist’s sweeping gestural painterly highlights and shadows nearly tilt these cityscapes, peopled with pedestrians or automobiles, into abstraction.
David Kapp is best known for his paintings of the contemporary urban landscape. His paintings have been described by Ken Johnson in the New York Times as having "a dreamy, mildly hallucinatory air and a mood of Hopperesque melancholy," reflecting the harsh kinetic beauty of the city itself.
