Biography
David Masters received his BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and his MFA from Kent State University. His current body of work has grown out of a life-long interest in the intersection of imagination and DIY construction. When he was a boy he built a roller coaster across a couple of acres of his parents’ property. As a student in Chicago he interned as a set designer with a theater company. The scenarios he sketches now with his recycled and scavenged materials have a native flavor of reality about them, but also a taste for fantasy, hovering between fondness and nightmare, remembering and deliberate forgetting. These are places torn loose from context, that recall a world and a state of the self ruined by time and circumstance. Yet Masters’ fragments can also be seen as the cornerstones of a new understanding, based on a recognition of the importance, and the indelibility, of times past in their relation to the rapidly changing present.
- Douglas Max Utter
