His work has been exhibited in Europe, as well as being a regular addition to shows on both the West and East coasts of the US. In 2010 he exhibited in fifteen shows, of which he was featured in five of them. The same year, David was awarded honoree artist at the San Diego Art Institute

Raised in Liverpool England, in a terraced house overlooking a cemetery, his early years were colored by a tableau of EC Horror comics,70’s occultism,synth rock and Catholic guilt.Always a keen scribbler,his artistic intents were fully realized upon seeing a monograph of Bosch’s Earthly Delights.

Enrolling to study at the Liverpool school of Art-upon graduating-he left for a decade as a commercial artist. However,upon the death of a friend-the third to die in a fifteen year period-what he calls a ‘cruel reminder of life’s fleetingness’,revitalized his early ambitions.

After a move to the California in 2005, and motivated by what he felt was a growing fundamental, religious extremism in the US, he began a new series entitled ‘Theothanatos’ (Latin for ‘death of God’), which would deal with broad questions of dogma and human origin.

However, as the series developed, he began to confront questions of his own mortality, bringing to the fore memories of personal loss, and an obsession with both the human skull and the cosmological significance of number three upon his life.

The Ghost series followed in quick succession, using deconstructed figurative forms as a motif for the decay of memory.

In 2011, his work was featured at the Oceanside Museum of Art as part of the Momento Mori showcase, which additionally saw the release of his first Art book entitled D3ad/Ends.

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Mining the dark recesses of a fevered subconscious, combined with the post millennial paranoia of impending doom, David Van Gough is a

Necrorealist painter.*

Rise-Van Gough’s second book followed in succession based around his solo showcase at LA’s Hyaena gallery in October 2012-Man/son and the haunting of the American Madonna. Currently, the work and research from the series is to be featured as part of the upcoming documentary-Serial Killer Culture, due for release in the fall of 2013.

Presently he is working on a new series entitled ‘Purgatorium’ (the place in between), an epic pictorial representation of the birth,assimilation,renunciation and legacy of the artist in a modern lifetime.

*An artistic movement founded during the 1980’s by filmmaker Evgeny Yufit, Necrorealism has its roots in the downfall of the Soviet union, it’s central tenet’s explore the end of ideology through death.