David FeBland is an artist who paints
urban landscape
In the visual arts, a cityscape (urban landscape) is an artistic representation, such as a painting, drawing, print or photograph, of the physical aspects of a city or urban area. It is the urban equivalent of a landscape. ''Townscape'' is ...
s. He has studios in
Arizona and in
New York City, in the United States. His work has elements of
Social Realism, and invites comparison to that of the
Ashcan School, or to the photographs of
Robert Frank
Robert Frank (November 9, 1924 – September 9, 2019) was a Swiss photographer and documentary filmmaker, who became an American binational. His most notable work, the 1958 book titled ''The Americans'', earned Frank comparisons to a modern-da ...
or
Garry Winogrand.
Reception
A ''New York Times'' review in 1996 described his fish-eye view of the interior of a New York City taxi as "a model of bravura painting". A ''Washington Post'' review in 2001 noted that "David FeBland continues to paint manic Manhattan streetscapes that remind us why we love New York and hate it, too."
References
External links
Mark Jenkins, Review: "In the galleries", ''The Washington Post'', April 13, 2018
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Living people
British painters
British male painters
University of Cincinnati alumni
University of Virginia School of Architecture alumni
Artists from London
Year of birth missing (living people)
Alumni of the University of Manchester