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Coming soon...FEB Commercial art show 2009 "Hard Show" This is going to be huge, 4x8 panels of painting with the theme of living in hard times.
yeah, New stuff... 'Energy'@ Ab Gallery Marietta,Ga..... .... ..These are pics of the Folk/outsider festival artshows that started doing lately, if you have pics of my ugly mug send 'em to me. .. .. So, This is the plan for 2008, The 'hard' show which will be addressing poverty in the South. This will be a series of painting exposing work, drugs, jail, crime, faith, and politics. Its about time someone said something real, I will try.Etsy
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Just got exepted in a permanent display at The Cobb House Museum in Athens 
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................I'm doing a solo exhibit in Marietta in May at A-B Gallery(Ab the Flagman), I'm making an installation show for "energy Show"
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The "oThErs" Artshow at Pier 92 Nov 17-18
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_Art Notes in Flagpole (local Athens Publication)_
Scratching the Surface by Beth Sale outthere@Flagpole.com
originally published January 24, 2007
The Real Thing: When I first saw the work of DM Kirwin at The Grit on Prince Avenue, I thought I was looking at the result of a folk anthropologist’s research. I imagined a hip graduate from the University of Virginia traveling to shacks in middle-of-nowhere Alabama to look at murals on the walls of recently deceased savants, watching films like Grits is Plural on Saturday nights, and pouring over volumes of Henry Darger’s paintings in a living room furnished by Ikea. But I was wrong. Kirwin is the real thing, he says so himself. He learned how to paint by watching painting shows through the static on PBS stations while living in originally from Daytona Beach, FL.
He moved to Athens from Alabama only five months ago, and has been looking at the work of other folk artists for inspiration...His exhibit at The Grit, titled "Southern Contemporary," is inspired by his time in Athens, an inspiration best seen in his portrait of the members of R.E.M. as Jolly Green Giants. The words “Eat your vegetables” are written across the top.
His other imagery includes the General Lee car from the Dukes of Hazzard, Abraham Lincoln with an upside-down head, two paintings of iced tea in long, tall glasses, and a “peace salmon.” The paintings are hung salon-style, stacked in a seemingly random order, with as many painting as can fit, and a petite American flag thrown in for good measure.
Kirwin’s painting surfaces are random as well: triangular surfaces, circles, found objects painted to look like windows. Kirwin will have work up at The Grit until Feb. 10. He’s working on pictures of famous people, so keep an eye out for his next show.
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- 婚姻狀態： 單身
- 來這裡是為了： 社交
- 家鄉： Daytona Beach, Fl
- 性傾向： 異性戀
- 體型： 182 公分 / 苗條 / 纖瘦
- 族裔： 其他
- 星座： 白羊座
- 子女： 還沒決定
- 抽煙/喝酒： 是 / 否
- 教育程度： 高中
- 收入： 300,000 以上
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Sparkman High School
- Harvest, AL
- 畢業年份： 無
- 在學狀態： 校友
- 學位： High School Diploma
1990 到 1991 -
Palm Bay Senior High School
- Melbourne, FL
- 畢業年份： 1991
- 在學狀態： 校友
- 學位： High School Diploma
- 主修： fine arts
1986 到 1990
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D.M. Kirwin Inc.
- Athen, Georgia US
- Freelance Artist and Design
2005 -2007
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Hi, welcome to my site, Click on Pics to see samples of my paintings
Outsider, Post-Cyber, visionary, self-taught, different, unusual, creative, truthful almost cynical, sometimes disturbing, understated yet layered, irreverent to the point of true reverence, haunting, searching, confusing, and above all challenging to our minds and senses;
These are some of the things that could be said about a particular artist.
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David Michael Kirwin was borne April 10, 1972 in Daytona Beach, Florida. He was the youngest of three brothers. One of the brothers, Steven was born severely autistic, so, his early development was not peaceful or simple. He was faced with confusion and harsh reality at a young age. He found an outlet in art. As a child, He received much praise for his pictures, the words like ‘early genius’ were used to describe him and gave the confidence to continue his goal to be an artist. His middleclass southern background was not really a sufficient training for an aspiring young artist. He faced many challenges and hardships, yet, still continued producing his own style of illustration and painting. Maybe in pursuit of acceptance in his early adult years he lived in several cities in Florida, Alabama, Texas, and Georgia. He has worked and supplemented a career. He worked many jobs to keep afloat and keep at his dream. Perhaps due to his rather unique upbringing, he had his pride, refusing to lead a ‘pampered life’. He almost welcomed the hardships that came his way. Much like a writer that needs experiences to relate, he feels he needed to live it to properly express it to others. His rich body of work is a journey though his life, good and bad. He wants to earn our respect not to be just given it. Money and privilege do not count in his world. That is a quality lacking in the modern ‘art world’, I believe. He continues to ‘fine tune’ his craft but not with traditional ways but rather with the richness of life. Art can come from self. Art can be Truth. I believe his art will be recognized and not easily ignored. His vision will affect us, challenge us, and remind us of aspects of our own experiences as we struggle to find our selves to be true, and maybe just a little magic too. By Mary Jean Kirwin
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Now it’s time to review your results so far. You may find it helpful at this stage to discuss your results with a colleague or tutor, or in a group.
1. Know yourself
How do YOU define yourself in relation to your practice?
self taught painter
What MOTIVATES you?
respect. it is how I communicate.
What special APPROACHES and QUALITIES do you bring to your work?
I take from my environment, feelings and emotions
What are you trying to ACHIEVE as an artist?
For yourself . . .
magic
For your work . . .
something that inspires others
What matters to you?
I try to find subjects that are edgey and not usually dwelt with and make an exploration of thought. I don't want to make trite and shock art.
Do you want to work on your own, or collaboratively and with whom?
I work on my own.
2. Know your work
What is your work/practice?
I work in acrylics and ink, usually. painting on found objects, board or wood. I use the world I live in, even down to the street I paint on as inspiration. The different places you are changes your perpective and subject matter. Some places want their story told.
The results are southern contemporary to folk art style.
The Nature of art to the market is and always a mystery and I beleive to should be. Galleries sell the art which has nothing to with creating, only giving it a value(which it already had)
Yet, It is good to pay the bills.
3. Know what makes you and your work different
What are the characteristics that are unique to your practice?
. . . in terms of yourself, process, approaches, ideas, issues, concepts, inspiration, influences, values?
I think I have since of emotion that I put into each piece i work on, even the small works. I try to love every painting and make them live. I put a little of myself into them, I think that is what matters in the future viewer.
. . . in terms of artform, products, techniques, use of materials?
I use what materials I have. I am a humble artist sometime recycling objects to paint on, yet I use learned technic of perserving them.
. . . in terms of audiences, markets, clients?
I hope I am viewed by anyone, I don't want be put into a genre or some kind of label. I think label make artist lazy and unmotivated to try something new.
Why should people value you/your work?
I think I am the real thing, I am a heart artist who wanted to become a great creator, failed many times, and continued becoming better.
4. Know your audience
Who or what is your audience?
I have sold to many types. I guess the most would fall into a middleclass audience. I have recieved kudos from folk art and underground galleries.
What is the connection between your audience and your uniqueness?
I think they see a truth in my work, certain social commentary and human feeling. I show in coffee shops and art shows usually so that is who I see.
Why should people buy/view your work/services/employ you?
well, I think I am skilled, I think I earned my playership.
Who are your competitors?
I don't have any, other than a corporate art world. but that is always been there. That world is influenced by who determans what art is at the moment, like fashion or music.
5. Learn to be your own critic
Overall the areas of my work I feel MOST confident with are:
I think I am producing good work.
Overall the areas of my work I feel LEAST confident with are:
I think I lack skills in marketing and making a product of my art
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..Myspace Layouts - Image Hosting - Forums BIO= (2009) Self taught painter and trades man. Began exhibited in 1992 in small galleries and coffee shops in Florida, Alabama, Texas, and Georgia. Kirwin has to the date made over 500 varied sized painting and sculpture. Having the heart and eye of abstraction, he has an unique style of using patterns and mazes to defuse realism in his painting subject. Kirwin is a rebel and an outsider of the conventual art world, and being that he sees a different world and the result is a truely fresh vision of painted form. Every painting is thought out to come to the veiwer an emotional responce good or negative, the whole is to provoke thought. 'I believe art is magic and ever since I was a child seeing great art in books, I wanted add the wonder' -------------------------------------David Micheal Kirwin---------------- =========================Sept.22,2007================== Artist who's overcome addiction offers works with sobriety as his muse By Beth Jones Staff Writer D.M. Kirwin populates his world with people who have holes where their hearts should be. The characters in his acrylic collection of "heart-gut paintings" look as if some wicked higher power stamped out their middles with a circular cookie cutter. "What goes in that hole?" asked Tim Flinn, owner of the Flat Penny Folk Art Gallery. "I imagine it's something personal." "Nobody lives to their 30s without a hole," Kirwin said.
Kirwin's own crater stems from his battle with alcoholism. He started drinking at age 12, getting beer from a friend who snagged it from his parents' fridge.
"You kind of go through all these skins," Kirwin said about getting sober. "Demons sneak up on you when you least expect it. You're never quite healed."
He read once that heavy drinking depletes the brain's supplies of dopamine, a neurotransmitter in the brain that partly governs a person's mood. He's held onto that bit of trivia.
"You're drinking away your happiness," Kirwin said of alcoholics.
Painting served as a therapeutic tool for the 35-year-old during the 16 months he's been sober.
The result of his work is a show called "Addictions" that will hang in Flat Penny through the first weekend in November.
One of his paintings, "Crushed," shows a beer can bearing the word "Depression" where the Budweiser label should be. In another, he captures the feet of alcoholics sitting in a circle at an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting.
He hopes his artwork will send a message to other artists that it's possible to harness creativity and imagination sober.
"I know a lot of artists who are straight," Kirwin said. "They're just as cool as anybody else."
Paintings by D.M. Kirwin
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