Communication of Yesterday - Oil on Canvas 36'' x 48'' David Jough’s unique paintings present human faces as their own multidimensional canvases. He deconstructs facial features, while retaining their basic parts, and rearranges them as if to stir up and reveal the life within. In the process, he re-imagines faces as creatures unique to his imagined world. In David's work, faces can sprout musical instruments or landscapes, or become abstract investigations into form and color.

David is interested in exploring the many dimensions of human identity. The way a sculptor works with clay to form his material into art, he sculpts with color and forms, in a surrealist style, as he re-mythologizes portraiture according to psychological states instead of social status. His work reflects society’s current fascination with body alteration and stretching the definition of what it means to be human. These paintings seem to postulate that if technology can redefine the human with its own specific scientific tools, then so too can art, with the instruments at its disposal: the primal tools of color, imagery and especially imagination.

David Jough presents our best and worst selves in his paintings: rich with dimension and diversity, but also contradiction and conflict. He is a visionary artist who gives us a view into our future—not literally, but who we will be in the deepest realms of our collective imagination.

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