For as long as I can remember, I've been fascinated with representations of the visual world. As an artist I try to express my thoughts, feelings, and visions in whatever subject I explore. Whether I am working on a landscape, portrait, or still-life, I search for ways to transform my subjects into compelling images. Often this means enhancing the colors, tones, or textural qualities, but always I try and remain truthful to the source, thus creating an image that will appear tangible to the viewer in its realism.
I'm drawn emotionally towards the beauty in small objects, such as the texture on the petals of a dried flower, or the way light catches the gleam in someone's eye, or the reflections in a mottled glass vase. In carefully observing these subjects I discover a world that is filled with many subtle nuances that are often missed at a quick glance, and in the process of drawing or painting them, I become absorbed in a visual poem. I feel very fortunate to be able to experience this, and I hope that the outcome will touch others as intensely as the process of creating them touches me.
David Rivera holds a Masters in Fine Art degree, cum laude, from the New York Academy of Figurative Art. He also graduated from the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in Philadelphia. At present besides focusing on his fine art painting he is an assistant professor of fine arts at Mercer County College, Trenton, N.J. He also teaches figure drawing and oil painting at Somerset Art Association.
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