Jason David’s debut solo show, Split Moon opens Sunday, November 16th with a reception from 2-4PM (earlier than usually for best daylight). Jason sculpts wood in a rich, searching way- collaborating with the material and letting it sing via thoughtful uses of subtraction, surface, negative space, and his hand. In addition to totems and other free-standing pieces, this show also features the first facade piece at Alto Beta, visible from Lincoln Avenue.

Jason David is an artist from Los Angeles, California, whose studio practice began with pottery while growing up in Redondo Beach. Surfing and clay were his early modes of expression, but by the early 1990s he became disillusioned with both surfing’s close-minded culture and a creative block with ceramics. On a friend’s suggestion, he traveled to Europe to study painting in Italy under two exiled South African artists. Reinvigorated by this experience, Jason returned to the U.S. to earn his BFA from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1996, focusing on painting, drawing, and printmaking. Years later, after returning to Los Angeles, he was invited by his mentors to participate in two residencies in South Africa (2004 and 2009), which reconnected him to form and introduced him to working with wood. Rooted in decades of material exploration, his work reflects a dialogue between memory, form, and the passage of time.

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