Bio

DAVID FREMERMAN (b. 1959, Kansas City, Missouri) is a painter, poet, and improv actor living in Dallas, Texas. He holds an MFA in painting from Indiana University Bloomington in 1990, and an MA in painting from Fontbonne University in St. Louis in 1988, where he also studied philosophy and literary criticism. He frequently writes about painting through poetry and is on the verge of publishing his first book of poems entitled Small Moments: Poems about Painting and Other Abstractions (2026).

He writes: “My paintings remind me of words like earthy, airy, contemplative, conversational, playful, or sublime, because they exist at the juncture of nature and mind. I’ve learned that a painting can stumble and it can drift, but if it can be recovered it will contain the knowledge gained within the marks. There’s no formula that will get you there.” He reveals the way a painting and life can be pleasurably precarious, like unplanned gatherings of forces and energies held together in momentary repose. Interplays of opacities and transparencies. Quiet modulations. When the velocity of seeing matches the velocity of a mark, it might start to hum.