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David Dotson: Freelance Illustrator, Sculptor, and Wanderer
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Like most artists, I was introduced to, and fell in love with, art at an early age. I have been developing my technical and creative skills throughout my life. For a time, I served in the Army, and after went on to get my BFA from Miami University. Several years later I also earned my MFA from Miami. Professionally my artwork has been shown nationally and internationally, with my works in both public and private collections. I have helped create animal exhibits for the Cincinnati Zoo, worked as an artist in a custom steel works shop, and spent 10 years as an assistant preparator at an art museum. The past few years I have been focusing on Illustration and painting, while also working as a graphic designer at a screen printing company, while always continuing to develop my sculptural work.
My work, at its core, has always been about storytelling. Whether painting, sculpting, or writing, my focus remains on creating narratives in my work that connect us.
In times past we have relied on myth and story to view and interpret the world and ourselves. We love and relate to our heroes and our monsters alike. As time passes and the Modern world progresses, the predominance of myth as a means of attunement has lessened and the role once occupied by Shamans has now passed to Artists. The Shaman and the Artist are both able to inhabit many worlds at once, to see things that others pass by. Both act as a catalyst to reveal the nature and conditions of being. Mythologies address the most human of issues; Death, Time, Sex, Birth, Loss, Valor, Shame, all of the things that push on and preoccupy the human psyche. Through the tool of
Myth and Story we are able to internalize the hidden or avoided realms that constantly surround us.
Thank you for taking the time to view and enjoy my work.
Like most artists, I was introduced to, and fell in love with, art at an early age. I have been developing my technical and creative skills throughout my life. For a time, I served in the Army, and after went on to get my BFA from Miami University. Several years later I also earned my MFA from Miami. Professionally my artwork has been shown nationally and internationally, with my works in both public and private collections. I have helped create animal exhibits for the Cincinnati Zoo, worked as an artist in a custom steel works shop, and spent 10 years as an assistant preparator at an art museum. The past few years I have been focusing on Illustration and painting, while also working as a graphic designer at a screen printing company, while always continuing to develop my sculptural work.
My work, at its core, has always been about storytelling. Whether painting, sculpting, or writing, my focus remains on creating narratives in my work that connect us.
In times past we have relied on myth and story to view and interpret the world and ourselves. We love and relate to our heroes and our monsters alike. As time passes and the Modern world progresses, the predominance of myth as a means of attunement has lessened and the role once occupied by Shamans has now passed to Artists. The Shaman and the Artist are both able to inhabit many worlds at once, to see things that others pass by. Both act as a catalyst to reveal the nature and conditions of being. Mythologies address the most human of issues; Death, Time, Sex, Birth, Loss, Valor, Shame, all of the things that push on and preoccupy the human psyche. Through the tool of
Myth and Story we are able to internalize the hidden or avoided realms that constantly surround us.
Thank you for taking the time to view and enjoy my work.
