About the artist:

David Storey, born in Madison, WI in 1948 is an artist who lives and works in New York City. He received both a BA and an MFA from the University of California at Davis, graduating in 1972. Storey exhibited with Jay Gorney Modern Art in the mid 1980's and with Hirschl and Adler Modern from 1986 to 1993. He has participated in numerous group exhibitions in the United States and abroad. He has received a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship Grant, a New York Foundation for the Arts Grant, the Milton and Sally Avery Residency at Yaddo, and grants from the Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts. He is married to the artist Jane Kent. They have a son, Jack. Trevor Winkfield was born in Leeds, England and after studying painting at the Royal College of Art in London he moved to New York City in 1969, where he has lived ever since. His work is represented by Tibor de Nagy Gallery. A book on his paintings and drawings, Trevor Winkfield's Pageant, with essays by Jed Perl and John Ashbery, was published in 1997 by Hard Press. Besides painting, he has collaborated extensively on books with poets of the New York School, including John Ashbery, Harry Mathews, Ron Padgett, Charles North, Larry Fagin, John Yau and Christopher Edgar. His essays on Vermeer, Florine Stettheimer, Joseph Cornell, Chardin, Jasper Johns, Gerald Murphy, Myron Stout, Leonardo da Vinci, John Graham, George Braque and others have appeared in such magazines as Art in America and Modern Painters. He is a Guggenheim Fellow and a Chevalier dans l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres. ARTIST'S STATEMENT Ten Aphorisms, Two Epigrams and a Quip TEN APHORISMS Painting is trans natural. Good and bad colors reflect the same light. Painting is always about here and there. All thought is a manual skill. There are no adjectives in black and white. Looking's erosion. Blue is a monument to the memory of red. Beauty is like a rock on the ground, hard and still and everywhere. Some colors are detergent, others solid steel. TWO EPIGRAMS 1 The oracle stutters, our Sybil's asleep - My themes, it seems, are not so deep 2 Any shape needs arms and legs (one head and a few small feet) Overlapped and clarified, Mute, but born to speak. A QUIP Style is sanity