“I think the reason my art connects is because a lot of things look nice, but are void of anything else…I want to see something that offends me, or makes me stop and contemplate life. That’s what good art does”.
Alchemy Gallery is pleased to present Once Upon A Time, a solo exhibition by Los Angeles based artist David Sabastian. Once Upon A Time is the artist’s first showing in New York and runs October 26 - November 26 at Alchemy Gallery’s 55 Delancey Street location.
As a passionate creative with an established presence in music and fashion, Sabastian’s venture into visual arts is one loaded with intention, as he seeks a new format for his anti-establishment ideals. Viewing himself and his life as an extended performance piece, Once Upon A Time sees Sabastian breaking into the visual arts in earnest, with vibrant and heavily layered paintings addressing Black History and contemporary issues. Ranging from playful riffs on pop culture to thought-provoking explorations of race and class, this new body of work is threaded with intimate reflections on his lived experience as a Jewish American Black man.
