David Fix Jr. is a “self-taught” (nonformally-taught, world-taught, god-taught) multidisciplinary artist who lives cradled by the mountains and guided by the river in New York’s Hudson Valley.

As a teenager, David diagnosed himself with Stendhal syndrome, manifesting in states of anxiety and overwhelm in the face of everyday beauty and magic (a light breeze, a ripe peach, two colors existing in harmony). He has spent his life learning from this precarious relationship to unavoidable phenomena, and, in recent years, has become motivated to take an active role in engaging with these experiences. Using paint, plaster, clay, his body, and any other material that gets his blood rushing, David transmutes his aesthetically pathological world into works that can be shared with others, easing his burden (he thanks you).

In his creative meanderings, David is interested in exploring temporary (inter)personal utopias. Utopias that exist in fleeting moments but arouse new sensibilities, allude to parallel worlds, and reenergize the spirit. Utopias not as social structures or final destinations but as feelings, as embodied experiences that fuel and fuse and foster life in the here and the now.

Whether the discipline itself is ephemeral (dance, performance) or enduring (painting, sculpture), his work is guided by a principle of impermanence—as in the impermanence of ecstasy and melancholy, of clarity and disorientation, of June. They will pass but they will come again: for it must be so.

Talk soon!