BORN IN CANADA. LIVE AND WORK IN PRAGUE.

David Strauzz (b.1976) is a mixed media artist who currently resides in Prague, Czech Republic and is a resident artist at Pragovka Art District. Born to Czech immigrant parents in London, Ontario, Canada, Strauzz studied at OCAD University in Toronto before relocating to Boston, Massachusetts becoming a resident artist at Braintree Street Studios in Allston. Following several solo and group exhibitions in Massachusetts and New York City, David was inspired to migrate back to the Czech Republic in 2015, coming full circle seeking to reconnect with his cultural heritage providing clues to his own self identity. He has started to exhibit throughout Europe including Berlin while developing his oevre focusing on “Places and Faces”.

PORTRAITS?

Documenting the human experience through portraiture and Figurative art has interested me for a long time. Since I was a student at Beal Art School in London, Ontario, I was experimenting with a hard geometric, deconstructive aesthetic trying to find a visual voice, which was in a way, inauthentic and naive. As of 2013 my artistic practice in Boston focused almost exclusively on semi abstract, optical and/or kinetic, mixed media and experimental portraiture. This coincided with several tragic personal experiences; in April the Boston Marathon Bombing, the death of my mother from cancer in October, and the simultaneous diagnosis of my father’s cancer and the psychological pain I felt as a result.

REFERENCES

Red Bull / WORKI'N / One Day with David Strauzz

Novinky.cz / David Strauzz / AirLite Mural

Pražská Drbna / David Strauzz / AirLite Mural