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.

 

Installation view of works by David McKirdy
Cat's Cradle
Enamel on steel
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$3,700
45 x 45.25"

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Cat's Cradle Study #4
2003
Enamel on steel
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$1,250
24 x 24"

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Cat's Cradle Study #6
2003
Enamel on steel
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$1,250
24 x 24"

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Asterism
2003
Enamel on steel
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$850
30 x 12"

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Parlor
Enamel on canvas on panel
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$4,700
53 x 45"

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Inverse Universe
2014
Rowlux film, vinyl
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$3,800
w/ frame: 46 x 46"

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Cascade 3
2015
Rowlux film, vinyl, acrylic
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$625
w/ frame: 17.25 x 17.25"

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Geo-Logic
2025
Iron, iron oxide
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$500
w/ frame: 13 x 13"

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Semaphere II
2016
Mirror mylar, Rosco gel, acrylic gel
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$1,100
w/ frame: 21 x 21"

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Oceanic
2009
Auminum leaf, gesso, epoxy resin
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$2,200
31 x 31"

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Double Time
2009
Aluminum leaf, gesso, epoxy resin
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$650
w/ frame: 21 x 12.75"

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Orbit
2025
Epoxy resin and aluminized spheres
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$700
18.5 x 14.5"

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Orbit 2
2025
Epoxy resin, aluminized spheres
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$300
w/ frame: 11 x 11"

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Orbit 3
2025
Epoxy resin, aluminized spheres
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$350
w/ frame: 13 x 11"

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Sphere
2025
Epoxy resin, aluminized spheres
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$300
11 x 11"

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Optic Machinery
2025
Epoxy resin, aluminized spheres
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$1,250
w/ frame: 25.5 x 18.5"

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Across the Universe #3
2017
Epoxy resin, aluminized spheres
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$850
w/ frame: 19 x 19"

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Condensing Universe 1
2011
Epoxy resin, aluminized spheres
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$2,600
w/ frame: 34 x 45"

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Condensing Universe 2
2015
Epoxy resin, aluminized spheres
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$3,800
w/ frame: 47 x 41"

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Across the Universe (Big Bang)
2025
Epoxy resin, aluminized spheres
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$4,800
w/ frame: 46.5 x 46.5 x 3.5"

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Point Blank
2019
punched museum board
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$2,000
42 x 42" (framed)
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Optical Study #179
2022
polypropylene and ragboard
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$550
8.5 x 8.5"
w/ frame: 18 x 17" (framed)

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Optical Study #180
2022
polypropylene and ragboard
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$550
8.5 x 8.5"
w/ frame: 18 x 17" (framed)
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Optical Study #181
2022
polypropylene and ragboard
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$550
8.5 x 8.5"
w/ frame: 18 x 17" (framed)
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Optical Study #182
2022
polypropylene and ragboard
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$550
8.5 x 8.5"
w/ frame: 18 x 17" (framed)
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untitled from the Optical Studies series (inventory #01231)
1999
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$550
8.5 x 8.5"
w/ frame: 18 x 17" (framed)
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Optical Study #183
2022
polypropylene and ragboard
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$550
8.5 x 8.5"
w/ frame: 18 x 17" (framed)
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Sahara
1994
burned Okawara Japanese paper
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$8,500
40 x 72
w/ frame: 43 x 75" (framed)
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Point Blank Study
2019
embossed museum board
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$750
20 x 20"
w/ frame: 20.5 x 20.5" (framed)
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Book of Days Study 3
2023
sekishu japan paper and acrylic
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$500
8.5 x 8.5"
w/ frame: 18 x 17" (framed)
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Book of Days Study 1
2023
sekishu japan paper and acrylic
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$500
8.5 x 8.5"
w/ frame: 18 x 17" (framed)
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Book of Days Study 2
2023
sekishu japan paper and acrylic
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$500
8.5 x 8.5"
w/ frame: 18 x 17" (framed)
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Book of Days Study 5
2023
sekishu japan paper and acrylic
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$500
8.5 x 8.5"
w/ frame: 18 x 17" (framed)
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Blizzard
2023
sekishu japanese paper and acrylic
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$750
18.5 x 14.75" (framed)
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Flurry 1
2023
sekishu japan paper and acrylic
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$1,275
34.75 x 14.75" (framed)
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Flurry 2
2023
sekishu japan paper and acrylic
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$975
19.5 x 19.5" (framed)
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