Bio

DAVID FREMERMAN (b. 1959, Kansas City, Missouri) is a painter, poet, and improv actor living in Dallas, Texas. He holds an MFA in painting from Indiana University Bloomington in 1990, and an MA in painting from Fontbonne University in St. Louis in 1988, where he also studied philosophy and literary criticism. He frequently writes about painting through poetry and is on the verge of publishing his first book of poems entitled Small Moments: Poems about Painting and Other Abstractions (2026).

He writes: “My work is equally at home with words like earthy, airy, contemplative, conversational, playful, or sublime. I look for something real at the juncture of nature and mind, to mix the quirky particular with the universal hum of life.” In his paintings, a matter-of-fact perception might soon drift into eternal concerns – the kind of questions you can never answer with full assurance. They seem to ask what is painting for if not to find pleasure amid uncertainty? As Sri Aurobindo taught his disciples, “The side of thought is not enough; the side of delight too must be entirely grasped.”

On the flip side, his paintings are grounded in a desire to understand nature – its physical structures and invisible forces – what led him to work much of his life as an engineer (chemical and environmental). Such ideas are important and necessary, but art, he explains, “is a running argument against over-calculation.”