2018
David C. Gallup has devoted his life to the study, teaching, and creation of art. He graduated from Otis/Parsons in Los Angeles in 1990, and soon found himself supervising a staff of over thirty artists under pop art legend Hiro Yamagata on the Earthly Paradise collection and other projects. He began plein-air painting on mornings, weekends and after work, and eventually left his friend and patron Yamagata to pursue a career as a gallery artist.
For over a decade, he was the Vice President of the historic California Art Club, and his ability to critique a wide range of painting styles was critical to the rise of the club’s prominence in the 21st Century. He has held three solo museum exhibitions, at the Weisman Museum in Malibu, at the Aquarium of the Pacific Museum in Long Beach, and at the Carnegie Art Museum in Oxnard, as well as numerous solo gallery exhibitions.
Along with his partner Nansi Bielanski, he left the California Art Club in 2016 to develop a new style of art based on some of the conceptually intriguing aspects of Cubism, fused with Abstraction, Pop, Impressionism, and Realism. \ This work is often inspired by the SCUBA diving the couple enjoy, and depicts motion, confusion, and brightly colored reef life. These paintings are used to inspire conservation and ocean education. Many of the large canvases are collaborations between them both, working in turns or simultaneously on the same canvas. They work at their studio in Santa Rosa Valley, CA. (in the hills above Camarillo) David also holds a weekly Master Class in painting for established artists.
(Biography provided by Izen Miller Gallery)
Tiputa Pass Snorkel
By David C Gallup
Located in Palm Desert, CA
Painting a coral reef, especially one as phenomenally healthy as the one at Tiputa Pass, Rangiroa, has unique challenges. The spawning of triggerfish there attracts swarms of trigge...
Oil, Wood Panel
Schooling Palometa
By David C Gallup
Located in Palm Desert, CA
I am always fascinated with human perception - you could say that it is why I became an artist. One of the most elusive qualities of perception, and therefore one of the greatest ch...
Oil, Wood Panel
Nude Ascending
By Nansi Bielanski Gallup and David C. Gallup
Located in Palm Desert, CA
On a recent trip to the Caribbean, Nansi and David were frequently surrounded by large shoals of Palometa fish, a privilege which inspired this painting, “Nude Ascending”. The motif, a nude swimmer interacting peacefully-almost spiritually-with ocean life, has become one of the trademarks of the husband and wife collaborative duo. Nansi Bielanski Gallup & David C. Gallup are fine artists living in Southern California and in the small island...
Oil, Wood Panel
"Rhapsody"
By Nansi Bielanski Gallup and David C. Gallup
Located in Palm Desert, CA
This painting is a fantasy, but it is about real things. Real dreams, real experiences, real opportunities. We are, all of us, free to strip off our clothes and explore a kelp forest...
Linen, Oil
Racing the Waves
By Carole Garland
Located in Palm Desert, CA
A Mother and her Children. A mother clutches her toddler to her breast and grabs her young son as they make for the shoreline to escape the churning Pacific Ocean waters. Are they ru...
Oil, Wood Panel
Blue Trevally in Moonlight
By David C Gallup
Located in Palm Desert, CA
The ocean never sleeps. For pelagic species such as Blue Trevally this is especially true. While few have the desire to swim in open water at night, these fish have no choice… the ...
Oil, Wood Panel
Into the Water
By Donna McGinnis
Located in Burlingame, CA
Warm Waters is a beautiful abstract painting in clear blue, with touches of warmth, that references color through water, with a quiet yet complex surface of layered oil paint over st...
Canvas, Oil
Ocean Light, Original Figurative Painting, Atmospheric art, Underwater Painting
Located in Deddington, GB
Ocean Light is an original figurative painting by artist Bill Bate. It features two figures underwater in this atmospheric composition and colour palette. Bill Bate was interested in...
Canvas, Oil
Under the Water
By Donna McGinnis
Located in Burlingame, CA
'Under the Water' is a beautiful abstract painting in clear blue, with touches of warmth, that references color through water, with a quiet yet complex surface of layered oil paint o...
Canvas, Oil
Swimmers Diving into Turquoise Sea from Rocky Shore
By Marina Fisher
Located in Zofingen, AG
## Swimmers Diving into Turquoise Sea from Rocky Shore Contemporary Coastal Seascape Figurative Painting Original Artwork This original coastal painting captures the energy and free...
Acrylic, Cardboard
Not Alone in the Ocean, Original 120 x 80 Oil Painting on Canvas
By Olga Nikitina
Located in Zofingen, AG
Original oil painting inspired by the Sardine Run, capturing the extraordinary experience of being immersed in one of the ocean’s most spectacular wildlife events. For Olga Nikitina...
Canvas, Cotton Canvas, Oil
Swimming with the Fishes - Expressive Oceanic Painting
Located in Boston, MA
Swimming with the Fishes 40.0 × 60.0 × 2.5, 7.0 lbs Acrylic paint Hand signed by the artist Artist's Commentary: "On one of my sailing deliveries we were becalmed so we jumped ove...
Acrylic
