Gold: The story behind an anti-monument
An artist’s essay on the development of Gold and the history of his process.
Texts
Selected critical writing on the artwork of David Spriggs
Of Force Fields and Rhythm Contours: David Spriggs’s Animate Sculptures
From Relationscapes: Movement, Art, Philosophy, The MIT Press.
Freeze Frames
From David Spriggs: Archaeology of Space, Rodman Hall Art Centre and Southern Alberta Art Gallery, pp. 9–10.
Stratachrome: The Saga of Green
A credited exhibition text on perception, power, and technological vision, with a link to the complete bilingual catalogue.
4 Colour Separation
An exhibition text on colour separation, spatial perception, and embodied viewing.
Paradox of Power
A critical text on serialized time, vision, deconstruction, and symbolic power.
David Spriggs: Arsenal Contemporary New York
Press release for David Spriggs’ 2026 solo exhibition at Arsenal Contemporary New York.
Blue Who
A review of Blue at RAW: Gallery of Architecture & Design, Winnipeg, exploring colour, embodied perception, and the emergence and dissolution of form. Border Crossings, December 2013.
The Power of Thinking and the Fundamental Encounter with Reality in the Works of David Spriggs
A critical conversation addressing image, perception, spatial form, and the symbolic structures of power.
Holocene
An essay on linear perspective, phenomenological encounter, and the instability of the human viewpoint within geological time.