Today we’d like to introduce you to Dave Rubinson.
Hi Dave, so excited to have you with us today. What can you tell us about your story?
I moved with my family from Philadelphia to Palm Beach County at the start of high school, and it was here that everything clicked. Discovering artists such as Salvador Dali and Maxfield Parrish blew my teenage mind and led me to enthusiastically enroll in studio classes at the Norton Museum of Art and to spend many blissful hours at the Society of the Four Arts in Palm Beach.
My career in the corporate world, working as a designer, videographer, animator, and creative director, did not prevent me from continuing to cultivate my personal artistic practice, nor did family life. Filling sketchbooks with drawings and experimenting with techniques and processes, I constantly searched for ways of working that empowered and crystalized what I longed to express. From my earliest days I have been interested in balance, beauty and harmony, so my work centers around polarities such as between masculine and feminine energies, technology and the beauty of the natural world and, what is closest to my heart, the sacred relationship between the cosmic and universal and our personal and intimate selves. Working with digital technology enables me to express the luminous, intricate way that light interacts with physical surfaces and so brings the work closer than ever to expressing what is so very difficult to put into words and is best expressed through art.
My experimental ideo work is here: https://vimeo.com/showcase/11366368) as well as my YouTube channel: https://youtube.com/@davidellisrubinson7241?si=rz3EU_GPovBrisoG). My fine art print work can be seen here: www.davidellisrubinson.com and: https://www.instagram.com/derubinson/
Would you say it’s been a smooth road, and if not what are some of the biggest challenges you’ve faced along the way?
Balancing a commercial career and fine art practice while raising a family! The decision to adopt digital technology as my primary fine art medium has also presented challenges as the software learning curves can be steep, The software is always evolving as well. However, I’ve found that working in both the analog and digital modes of creativity feed and nurture each other.
Alright, so let’s switch gears a bit and talk business. What should we know about your work?
Since the 1970’s, I’ve been making mandalas, which I feel are the ideal form to express harmony and wellbeing. In the beginning, they were entirely analog; drawn, painted or airbrushed. Now, all of my work is entirely digital which affords many advantages traditional analog work does not. Besides the sheer power of the software to mimic the physical characteristics of the physical world, prints of various sizes and different substrates are easy to produce as well as animations which can be seen here: https://vimeo.com/showcase/11366368) as well as my YouTube channel: https://youtube.com/@davidellisrubinson7241?si=rz3EU_GPovBrisoG). On the print side, I have both open and limited edition prints.
What does success mean to you?
Pleasing myself is the primary yardstick of success. When I’m able to approach that internal vision that informs all of my work, I consider that a success. The bonus is being able to share the work with others!
Pricing:
- TBD as per print size and edition (open or closed)
Contact Info:
- Website: https://Www.davidellisrubinson.com
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/derubinson/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/davidellisrubinson/?modal=admin_todo_tour
- LinkedIn: Linkedchai01 https://www.linkedin.com/in/davidellisrubinson
- Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@davidellisrubinson7241
- Other: https://vimeo.com/showcase/11366368
