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David Pohl is a multimedia artist and arts educator.

David’s work has been recognized by Communication Arts, The Society of Illustrators, American Illustration, Print, Graphis and How magazines.

House of Pingting is an illustration and design company located in Pittsburgh. Servicing magazine + book publishing, institutional + advertising clients. Illustration + animation for print, web + broadcast TV.




www.davidpohl.com

Clients include:
The Atlantic Monthly, Business Week, Harvard University, The Kikkoman Corporation, Newsweek, The New York Times, PBS, Time Magazine, Tower Records, Simon & Schuster, The United Jewish Federation and Yoga Journal.

Exhibitions include:
The Mattress Factory PGH, The Society of Illustrators Museum NYC, The Carnegie Museum of Art PGH, The Art Directors Club NYC, The Illustration Gallery NYC, House of Pingting PGH

Artist Educator in The Pittsburgh Center for the Arts Residency Program.

All works on this site are subject to US copyright law.
Copyright © 2009 David Pohl
All Rights Reserved.

If you want to use an image, please write and ask for permission. I don't give away my work, but I am willing to negotiate a reasonable fee, especially for non-profits.

Unless noted
All other work on this site is
Copyright ©
2008 David Pohl
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The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.
~Rabindranath Tagore


For some years before the term mashup became a popular term in the English lexicon, I have been interested in mining the fields of popular culture and combining disparate sources to create new works. To facilitate my ideas I explore a full range of media including: painting, found object sculpture, photography, video, site specific installation, performance, digital art and sound.

Since 1991 I have integrated elements from Buddhist, Taoist, Hindu and Sikh traditions and rituals into my practice as a contemporary artist. Equally, the work remains influenced by America's cultural heritage and the collective mythology of our times. Spontaneity is essential to my process, but I am not concerned with random combinations. There is a contextual relationship between any chosen medium and the narrative of a piece. Often one will dictate to the other. I am interested in exploring the depth of [a] shared cultural experience and one's unique memories and associations to it.

This East meets West approach creates a tension in the work of tradition versus novelty. The temporary, mutable and time-based elements in my work point towards the cyclical nature of life. Everything that is new will soon become old, while what's old, in time, becomes the next new thing. Swiftly moving technologies that we live and work with on a daily basis radically alter our notion of time.

I attempt to illustrate the idea that life is a spiritual process through which one can discover a deeper union with a timeless reality. Indeed, life is short, but (mechanical) time is the great illusion of history.

David Pohl
June 2009