DAVID UNDERWOOD

Graduate and professor of Carson-Newman University, in Jefferson City, TN, David Underwood expands the language of photography beyond the limitations of single-frame imagery. He has made significant contributions to the continuum of the history of image-text and photo/mixed-media artwork.

Through alternative methods, he works with grids, multiple images, and creative presentation materials he pushes the boundaries of tradition. Underwood explores the combinations of images and their conversations in how they work together both visually and thematically. He integrates text with a degree of ambiguity so that content is somewhat directed, but also so that each viewer may also infer their own meaning from the work. The component parts of these assemblages were photographed years and perhaps many miles apart.

Underwood’s work is collected by museums nationally, including the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Asheville Art Museum, Cincinnati Art Museum, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Crocker Art Museum, Hunter Museum of American Art, Knoxville Museum of Art, and the MINT of Charlotte, NC.