TitleComing Out of the Subway
Artist
David Kapp
(American, b. 1953)
Date1998
MediumOil on linen
DimensionsImage size: 50 1/4 x 50 1/4 in.
Framed: 51 3/4 x 51 7/8 x 2 3/4 in.
SignedSigned on verso: ""Coming Out of the Subway" David Kapp, 1998 NYC."
SubmissionNA diploma presentation, May 18, 2005
Credit LineNational Academy of Design, New York, NY, Gift of anonymous donor, 2005
Object number2005.4
Label TextDavid Kapp has been a student of the urban landscape for nearly thirty years. His expressionistic style of realism is reminiscent of the artists of the Bay Area figurative school, David Park and Richard Diebenkorn, NA. By juxtaposing the dark confined area of the steps with the illuminated building and sky, "Coming Out of the Subway" illustrates Kapp's interest in the interplay between light and shadow. The artist stated: "'Coming Out of the Subway' is about the transitional moment when one leaves the dark underground for the light above. It's an energetic but subtle shock of contrasting spaces. Specifically or literally, it is the Canal St. and Broadway, southwest corner stairs opening to the south side of Canal St. The large white building in the middle ground is The First National City Bank of New York, an Art Deco building from 1923."
