David Rabinowitch was born in 1943 in Toronto, Canada, and currently lives and works in New York.

Rabinowitch is best known for his sculpture, although he has also produced a series of mixed media drawings. This drawing is from Rabinowwitch’s Birth of Romanticism series. The series began in the 1970s with a series of lithographs exploring the fluidity of form using subtle variations of tone. Rabinowitch named these print series after figures from the late eighteenth century Romanticism movement. Like the period after which they are named, the drawings contain a vitality and emotional quality not usually present in Rabinowitch’s sculpture or drawings but continue his investigation of space and perception.

Exhibitions include

The Chinati Foundation, Marfa, Texas
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario
Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University
Kunstmuseum Winterthur, National Gallery Prague
Zacheta Gallery of Contemporary Art, Warsaw
Galerie Nationale du Jeu de Paume, Paris

Works appear in

Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco
National Gallery, Washington, DC
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa
Museum of Modern Art, New York

Rabinowitch builds up the works through layering of surfaces and mediums. Linen is collaged with paper of different thicknesses and textures over which pencil, ink, pastel and gouache are applied with varying intensities.