Eileen David Shows At LewAllen Galleries

LewAllen Galleries is pleased to announce an exhibition of paintings by Eileen David, the San Francisco painter known for her colorful hillside cityscapes, street scenes, and paintings of swimmers. David’s works evoke the buoyant sensations, rhythms, and colors of her city, from images of residential neighborhoods to deserted street scenes to moments of quiet solitude found by figures swimming in the bay. Many of her works hone in on the surprising plays of light and shadow across pavement or water, providing a counterpoint to the deliberate geometries of architecture. In all cases, David culls from the multiplicity of shapes and colors found in the landscape, often amending her scenes with succulent, heightened color that lends them a dreamlike or storybook quality. The exhibition, entitled City Rhythms, opens on Friday, April 8 and continues through May 14. With a painting studio located at an old naval shipyard on San Francisco Bay, David…