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David McKirdy is a mixed media artist living and working in Tampa. Using such techniques as burning or punching holes and other shapes in materials chosen for their textural and visual qualities, McKirdy creates surfaces that are worked maximally with minimal means to produce complex fields, always with an underlying order.
Finding inspiration from his time looking through microscopes as a biology student at the University of South Florida, McKirdy describes that his award-winning body of work “evokes associations from the atomic to the cosmic.” A careful arrangement of layers and materials pulls the viewer in to discover illusions of movement, harmony, and pattern.
Always searching for new sources of inspiration in the natural and cosmic worlds, McKirdy states that his work is overall concerned with themes of optical fields, materials, endurance, seeing, order, information, variation, repetition, time, transformation, surfaces, and accretion.
Finding inspiration from his time looking through microscopes as a biology student at the University of South Florida, McKirdy describes that his award-winning body of work “evokes associations from the atomic to the cosmic.” A careful arrangement of layers and materials pulls the viewer in to discover illusions of movement, harmony, and pattern.
Always searching for new sources of inspiration in the natural and cosmic worlds, McKirdy states that his work is overall concerned with themes of optical fields, materials, endurance, seeing, order, information, variation, repetition, time, transformation, surfaces, and accretion.
David McKirdy
Installation view of works by David McKirdy
Optical Study #1842022
polypropylene and ragboard
8.5 x 8.5"
w/ frame: 18 x 17" (framed)
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Book of Days - Day 12023
sekishu japan paper and acrylic
21.25 x 21.25" (framed)
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Book of Days - Day 32023
sekishu japan paper and acrylic
21.25 x 21.25" (framed)
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Book of Days - Day 82023
sekishu japan paper and acrylic
21.25 x 21.25" (framed)
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Book of Days - Day 62023
sekishu japan paper and acrylic
21.25 x 21.25" (framed)
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Book of Days - Day 52023
sekishu japan paper and acrylic
21.25 x 21.25" (framed)
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untitled (inventory #05234)2017
epoxy resin, aluminized spheres
11.25 x 11.25" (framed)
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Across the Universe 22017
epoxy resin and aluminized spheres
21.25 x 21.25" (framed)
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untitled (inventory #05231)2017
epoxy resin, aluminized spheres
11.25 x 11.25" (framed)
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untitled (inventory #05233)2017
epoxy resin, aluminized spheres
11.25 x 11.25" (framed)
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untitled (inventory #05232)2017
epoxy resin, aluminized spheres
11.25 x 11.25" (framed)
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1536 Above / 555 Below 1991
graphite on ragboard
20 x 16.5"
w/ frame: 31 x 26.5” (framed)
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untitled from the Optical Studies series (inventory #01232)burned glassine and graphite
18 x 17" (framed)
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untitled (inventory #05211)2021
burned glassine and graphite
18 x 17" (framed)
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Rotary Study #192005
burned glassine
18 x 17" (framed)
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Across the Universe 12017
epoxy resin and aluminized spheres
w/ frame: 21.25 x 21.25” (framed)
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Errant Navigation (left) / detail (right)2015
aluminum leaf on gesso
57.75 x 12"
w/ frame: 59.75 x 14" (framed)
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Book of Days Study 62023
sekishu japan paper and acrylic
18 x 17" (framed)
SOLD