David Florimbi’s True Blue: A Life in Color and Creativity — Santa Barbara Magazine
One of the most striking aspects of artist David Florimbi’s work is his use of the color blue. “It’s a tonal resonance that’s really hard to achieve,” he says. “And once you get it, it’s like magic; then you can swim in it. It’s my chord. It’s my harmonic.” Indeed, Florimbi has plumbed the depths of the cool spectrum from deep inky indigo to brilliant icy turquoise for the past four decades. And he’s not done yet: “Yves Klein was onto something,” he says, about the artist who created the iconic color International Klein Blue. “It is a spiritual portal.” Read more …
Donald Kuspit Review
Florimbi presents us with figure after figure, many bizarre, among them the portentous El Caudillo and the enigmatic and ethereal Floater, others erotic if troubled, such as the women in Woman with Finger and Touching the Surface, and others heavenly and sacred in import, like those in Woman with Child and the figure in Floater II. Again and again we see central figures floating or suspended in the sky--infinite space, as it were--perhaps most noteworthily in Untitled, or else hovering above the ground, as in Racing Figures. There is no question that many of the figures are art historically loaded images. Read more ...
Coming and Going
David Florimbi’s Big Blue Skies Hit Frank Pictures Gallery with Coming And Going. Read more …
Master Wit
Unreal Real Estate, Santa Barbara Magazine
Art in Paradise, Santa Barbara Magazine
Artistic Reality, Distinction
Imminent Domain, Scene Magazine, Santa Barbara News-Press
