Bio

DAVID FREMERMAN (b. 1959, Kansas City, Missouri) is a painter, poet, and improv actor living and working in Dallas, Texas. He received an MFA in painting from Indiana University Bloomington in 1990, and an MA in painting from Fontbonne University in St. Louis in 1988. 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).

His paintings revolve around questions that are best not answered with airtight logic. In its place he offers only partly resolved, somewhat enlightened responses, which speaks profoundly to the artistic process itself. Sometimes his themes evolve organically, at other times in quantum leaps. It’s all about following the impulse, the spontaneous flow, not imposing too forcefully upon a subject. What is painting for if not to find pleasure amid uncertainty? As Sri Aurobindo taught his disciples, “The side of thought is not enough; the side of delight too must be entirely grasped.”

In addition to studying art, he holds a BS in chemical engineering from Washington University in St. Louis (1982), and worked for several decades as an environmental engineer to help make ends meet. These experiences bring a sense of knowing reality to his more poetic inclinations. Whether writing or painting, his thoughts can range from the quotidian to the cosmological, and despite the accompanying scientific backdrop, his work remains a running argument against over-calculation.