Hometown: Silver Spring, MD
Dave Dunn’s art is defined by a unique ability to invest his metal constructions with both whimsy and primordial dark mystery. His works draw on imagery and meaning
from a metallurgical era lost to the modern age. His often frequent use of medieval imagery in his welded and forged work evokes in the viewer an historical allegory,
while imbuing his creatures of nature with abstract nuance and fantasy.
Combining rough steel imagery with historical symbols of contest and predators, his creatures take on mysterious and fantastical life forms. Drawing on a lifelong
environmental consciousness, he assembles repurposed objects, found metal pieces or modern steel implements with deft creativity, offering the viewer a more modern and
empathetic connection to the natural world through movement and personality.
From his earliest years growing up on Harris creek flowing into the Chesapeake Bay, he combined driftwood and other found objects deposited by high tides and repurposed
them into art objects while daydreaming about what lurked beneath the waves. He also spent formative years living in Paris, France, the son of an American diplomat,
surrounded by the medieval and renaissance imagery of the old world. Today he works out of his DunnInMetal Studios in Silver Spring, Maryland and his small workspace
where he began his career in Bozman. Maryland.