DAVID ALFUTH
About the Artist
David Alfuth’s work as a collage artist employs all the principles of a collage but with one very important aspect added: he strives to surprise the viewer with not only unique images, but those with an extra quality of dimension. His work is all three-dimensional, revealing interesting architectural elements and presenting them from different angles and perspectives. His use of collage embodies many of the basic tenets of Cubism; his designs display various textures, patterns, and shapes combined with the element of depth. He wants the viewer of his work to get lost in the complexity of the piece and its many different layers and levels.
David started as a drawing and painting major, later earned degrees in arts education as well as art history, and eventually became a surrealist collage artist amidst his teaching career of 43 years. Each construction that he creates has its own story to tell, with a sometimes whimsical ending or a more thought-provoking ending. David enjoys the ability to create miniature worlds that he and his characters could exist inside of and finds the process to be both therapeutic and cathartic.
The initial constructions he created are actually a lesson plan gone awry. David worked as an art instructor and created this unit of study to explore and explain Surrealism to his 8th-grade students. He discovered that by creating examples with his students, he could not stop creating more and more on his own, and found that the process brought forth an amassment of creativity he had not known for a long time.
Recent solo exhibitions at Touchstone:
