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David McKirdy is a mixed media artist living and working in Tampa. Using such techniques as burning or punching holes and other shapes in materials chosen for their textural and visual qualities, McKirdy creates surfaces that are worked maximally with minimal means to produce complex fields, always with an underlying order.
Finding inspiration from his time looking through microscopes as a biology student at the University of South Florida, McKirdy describes that his award-winning body of work “evokes associations from the atomic to the cosmic.” A careful arrangement of layers and materials pulls the viewer in to discover illusions of movement, harmony, and pattern.
Always searching for new sources of inspiration in the natural and cosmic worlds, McKirdy states that his work is overall concerned with themes of optical fields, materials, endurance, seeing, order, information, variation, repetition, time, transformation, surfaces, and accretion.
Finding inspiration from his time looking through microscopes as a biology student at the University of South Florida, McKirdy describes that his award-winning body of work “evokes associations from the atomic to the cosmic.” A careful arrangement of layers and materials pulls the viewer in to discover illusions of movement, harmony, and pattern.
Always searching for new sources of inspiration in the natural and cosmic worlds, McKirdy states that his work is overall concerned with themes of optical fields, materials, endurance, seeing, order, information, variation, repetition, time, transformation, surfaces, and accretion.
David McKirdy
210241998
graphite on board
Art: 47.5 x 9.5"
w/ frame: 55 x 17"
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Optical Study 1122011
polypropylene film and ragboard
10.5 x 31"
w/ frame: 20.5 x 40.5"
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Installation view of works by David McKirdy
1536 Above / 555 Below 1991
graphite on ragboard (framed)
20 x 16.5"
w/ frame: 31 x 26.5”
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28954/704681987
graphite on ragboard (framed)
25 x 50"
w/ frame: 39 x 61"
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28954/70468 (detail)
1987
graphite on ragboard
1987
graphite on ragboard
untitled from the Optical Studies series (inventory #01232)burned glassine and graphite
18 x 17"
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untitled (inventory #05211)2021
burned glassine and graphite
18 x 17"
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Magnetic Study 6 (left) / detail (right)2004
iron filings and enamel paint (matted)
11 x 11"
w/ frame: 20 x 19"
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Paper Cut 1 (left) / detail (right)2022
japanese paper and magnets on rag board (framed)
18 x 18"
w/ frame: 21.25 x 21.25"
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Across the Universe 12017
epoxy resin and aluminized spheres (framed)
w/ frame: 21.25 x 21.25”
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Errant Navigation (left) / detail (right)2015
aluminum leaf on gesso (framed)
57.75 x 12"
w/ frame: 59.75 x 14"
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Dark Matter Study (left) / detail (right)2006
graphite & gesson on ragboard (framed)
19 x 19.5"
w/ frame: 20.75 x 21"
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10120punched museum board
Frame: 31 x 13"
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Pierced Field2019
thai mulberry japanese paper, acrylic, magnets, and museum board
Frame: 37.5 x 28"
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Fertile Fieldburned glassine, graphite, and museum board
Frame: 42" x 41"
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untitledburned glassine and museum board
Frame: 32 x 32"
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12,705burned glassine and museum board
Frame: 32 x 31"
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Optical Study 164punched polypropylene and museum board
18 x 17"
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Nocturne1998
graphite and ink on rag board
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Illuminated Manuscriptgraphite, gold leaf, silver leaf, gesso on rag board
15.5 x 23.5"
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Rotary #15burned glassine and museum board
Frame: 27 x 26"
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24,0091983
woodcut on japanese paper
32.5 x 27.5"
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Manuscript 42481998
lead shot, graphite, and polyurethane on museum board (framed)
20 x 24"
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Raft2009
mars black acrylic on polypropylene (framed)
21 x 17"
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Second Flurry2019
thai mulberry japanese paper, magnets, and museum board
Frame: 61.5 x 41.5"
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Flurry Study2019
thai mulberry japanese paper, magnets, and museum board
Frame: 20.75" x 20.5"
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