David Matthew King was born in Southern California where he lives and works. He focuses on creating vibrant, abstract works that incorporate bold colors and expressive brushstrokes. His paintings often explore themes of nature and the human experience, and he is known for his ability to capture emotion and movement in his work. He combines his poetic sense of rhythm with self-imposed constraints. His palette is limited to predominantly elementary colors with pure black and pure white omitted. His color choices suggest the reduction of art to its basic material elements. The simplicity is played down by David’s mark-making: scraping and scrubbing acrylic paint into raw canvas in repeating forms.