David Herbst is an abstract expressionist painter who lives and works in Bedford New York. He studied at Cooper Union, NYU and Hunter College. He studied with both Tony Smith and Ad Reinhardt. He was a high school art teacher in the New York City Public Schools from 1963 until he retired in 1988 due to a life altering disability.
With his mobility and communications skills taken from him, David now sees art as a way of expressing himself. His paintings are done in acrylic and often incorporate collage. Although he is disabled, through his mastery of color relations, shape and form, his work is more than a way of expressing himself. David combines the stylistic legacy of his teachers with the formal inventiveness of Roy Lichtenstein s collages to carry forward a tradition that he learnt early in his career.
His artwork has been reviewed in several publications and received the first place prize at the Katonah Beaux Art Exhibition in 2009.
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