Selected work

Building up.
Taking away.
Finding what emerges.

David Glinski is a Brooklyn-based artist making large abstract collage and mixed-media paintings. His practice began with figurative work in 2020, when the space and time of the pandemic allowed him to discover art as a way of understanding himself.

His current work draws on materials familiar from growing up around his father’s construction work and later renovating homes himself: house paint, plaster, concrete and burlap, alongside salvaged street posters, advertisements, newspapers and subway maps.

Artist statement

I build layers and take them apart again. Scraping, sanding, scratching and tearing create openings for expression and chance. I look for textures that tell a story of time, like layers in the earth exposed by erosion.

I choose printed material mostly for its color and shape. Sometimes a word survives, and I play with the meaning it brings. My emotions can lead me to cover a painting completely or pull it apart; other times, I leave it alone for weeks to let it breathe.

After working figuratively, I turned toward abstraction because it was something I resisted. This body of work follows that exploration—each painting a marker of growth, discovery and change.

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Brooklyn, New York