David Marc Grant

San Francisco

At first glance, David Marc Grant’s illustrative, colorful works are deceivingly benign, but within each is an underlying commentary on hotly contested geo-political issues such as unintended consequences of a civilization built on a foundation of unsustainable growth on a finite planet.

As Grant states himself, for his current show, My Magic Will Bring Them Back, he „continues to explore my interest in fictitious world building. These images and visions are intended to imply technologies and structures of an unknown temporality and reality. They could exist in the past, present, or future, possibly all at the same time.

My formative exposures to the genres of dystopian/utopian science fiction and fantasy which placed an emphasis on the creation of awe-inspiring spectacle as well as cautionary tales of environmental disaster and the end of the world are the impetus for this investigation. As is the notion that we might return to a more balanced and harmonious existence after this current civilization has run its inevitable course. Implicit in this world building process is the creation of a narrative myth involving sparse landscapes, trees, icebergs, animals, and fictitious colorful geometric structures. But what story they are telling is only revealed to me through the completion of each subsequent work. With any given glimpse into this created world, I’m more compelled to keep working to see what other wonders and magic might exist there.“

David Marc Grant

White Walls Project Space

June 8 – June 29, 2013
886 Geary Street
San Francisco, CA 94109
USA

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