ARTIST SPOTLIGHT: On David Shrobe
Highlighting the artist's practice and newly released edition with ART FOR CHANGE
Take a closer look at New York-based artist David Shrobe’s newest limited edition print, Ascension, which is now available for purchase at artforchange.com.
David Shrobe creates multi-layered portraits and assemblage paintings made in part from everyday materials that he finds in multiple geographies. He disassembles furniture, especially from his familial home in Harlem, separating wood from fabric and recombines them as supports for collage, painting, and drawing. Through these various modes of production, his work brings notions of identity, history, and memory into question while challenging conventions of classical portraiture. Shrobe produces new narratives, fragmented and nonlinear, that feel intimate and personal without being anchored to a specific time or place.
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DAVID SHROBE
Ascension, 2024
26 x 21.25 inches
Archival pigment print
Limited edition of 5
Hand-embellished, signed and numbered by the artist
Limited edition of 20 with 5AP + 1PP
Signed and numbered by the artist
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Set within an oval frame that suggests a portal into a liminal space, Ascension stems from a body of work that builds on Shrobe’s interest in folklore and creation mythologies. The primary characters represent a pair of lovers, embracing one another against a dark background illuminated by twinkling, distant lights. Their faces merge together at the center, from which they peer outward through a single eye—intended to signify a unified vision. A reflection on the relationship between the artist and the women in his family, the female figure within the composition stretches an arm around her male counterpart, implying her role as the protector in the depicted moment. For this limited edition series, Shrobe will hand-embellish each print by incorporating unique elements that include patterned flocking materials, painted canvas, found textiles, and acrylic paint.
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ABOUT THE ARTIST
David Shrobe (b.1974, Harlem, NY) holds an MFA (2013) and BFA (2009) in painting from Hunter College. He is an alum of the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture (2014) and was a Joan Mitchell Artist Teaching Fellow. Shrobe has had solo exhibitions at Monique Meloche Gallery, Chicago; Steve Turner Gallery, Los Angeles; Thierry Goldberg Gallery, New York; and Jenkins Johnson Gallery, San Francisco. His work is included in the traveling group exhibition Multiplicity: Blackness in Contemporary American Collage which opened at the Frist Art Museum, Nashville TN in 2023 and will travel to the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX, and the Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C in 2024. Other group exhibitions include Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY; CFHILL Art Space, Stockholm, Sweden; Jeffrey Deitch Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, and New York, NY; the Bronx Museum, Bronx, NY; and the Studio Museum in Harlem, New York.
Interested in a limited edition, fine art print above? Reach out via our Contact Page!
Highlighting the artist's practice and newly released edition with ART FOR CHANGE
 David Shrobe hand-embellishing his print Ascension, 2024. Image courtesy of the artist. |
Take a closer look at New York-based artist David Shrobe’s newest limited edition print, Ascension, which is now available for purchase at artforchange.com.
David Shrobe creates multi-layered portraits and assemblage paintings made in part from everyday materials that he finds in multiple geographies. He disassembles furniture, especially from his familial home in Harlem, separating wood from fabric and recombines them as supports for collage, painting, and drawing. Through these various modes of production, his work brings notions of identity, history, and memory into question while challenging conventions of classical portraiture. Shrobe produces new narratives, fragmented and nonlinear, that feel intimate and personal without being anchored to a specific time or place.
SHOP THE PRINT
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DAVID SHROBE
Ascension, 2024
26 x 21.25 inches
Archival pigment print
Limited edition of 5
Hand-embellished, signed and numbered by the artist
Limited edition of 20 with 5AP + 1PP
Signed and numbered by the artist
SHOP THE PRINT
Set within an oval frame that suggests a portal into a liminal space, Ascension stems from a body of work that builds on Shrobe’s interest in folklore and creation mythologies. The primary characters represent a pair of lovers, embracing one another against a dark background illuminated by twinkling, distant lights. Their faces merge together at the center, from which they peer outward through a single eye—intended to signify a unified vision. A reflection on the relationship between the artist and the women in his family, the female figure within the composition stretches an arm around her male counterpart, implying her role as the protector in the depicted moment. For this limited edition series, Shrobe will hand-embellish each print by incorporating unique elements that include patterned flocking materials, painted canvas, found textiles, and acrylic paint.
 David Shrobe pictured with his print, Ascension, 2024. Image courtesy of the artist. |
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ABOUT THE ARTIST
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David Shrobe (b.1974, Harlem, NY) holds an MFA (2013) and BFA (2009) in painting from Hunter College. He is an alum of the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture (2014) and was a Joan Mitchell Artist Teaching Fellow. Shrobe has had solo exhibitions at Monique Meloche Gallery, Chicago; Steve Turner Gallery, Los Angeles; Thierry Goldberg Gallery, New York; and Jenkins Johnson Gallery, San Francisco. His work is included in the traveling group exhibition Multiplicity: Blackness in Contemporary American Collage which opened at the Frist Art Museum, Nashville TN in 2023 and will travel to the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX, and the Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C in 2024. Other group exhibitions include Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY; CFHILL Art Space, Stockholm, Sweden; Jeffrey Deitch Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, and New York, NY; the Bronx Museum, Bronx, NY; and the Studio Museum in Harlem, New York.
Interested in a limited edition, fine art print above? Reach out via our Contact Page!