Untitled (Red and Yellow)
This work was featured in the artist’s solo exhibition, The Road Not Taken, at NGCI in 2015. While the title implies an exclusive preoccupation with the formal properties of painting — namely composition and colour — Bridgeman’s work explores the space between objective reality and personal memory, utilising images, marks, and symbols that refer to both the artist’s past and present. Working on paper or polyester film, he makes extensive preparatory drawings and collages that are then cut or torn before being reassembled within a larger work.
About the Artist
David Bridgeman
b. 1959
Born in Oxford, Bridgeman acquired a BEd (Hons) at Worcester College of Higher Education and moved to the Cayman Islands in 1987 to teach. As a professional artist, he has received important commissions from the Cayman Islands Government and from the Cayman National Cultural Foundation. His work is in private collections and the public collections of CNCF, CINM, NGCI as well as at the Governor’s Residence. He is a founding member of the Cayman art collective C4. NGCI exhibitions include: Anchored in Landscapes (2005) and Arreckly: Towards a Cultural Identity (2007), Art of Assemblage (2013), The Road Not Taken (solo show, 2014), Metamorphoses (2014), tIDal Shift: Explorations of Identity in Contemporary Caymanian Art (2015), All Access (2015), Upon the Seas (2017), Mediating Self (2017), Cross Currents – 1st Cayman Islands Biennial (2019), and Tropical Visions (2019).
