David Limrite was born in Salinas, California. He received his Bachelor of Arts degree from San Diego State University. Yet, feeling as though he had not placed enough emphasis on the techniques of drawing, he entered Art Center College of Design in Pasadena. Later, Limrite's stylistic abilities and conceptual attributes were acuated by his position as Art Director in the Editorial Department at the Los Angeles Herald Examiner where he began to understand the strong contrasts inherent in black and white photographs as well as the dramatic impact of the tragic pictorial imagery he constantly encountered. He would apply these characteristics to his own emotional and dramatic drawings.

Using primarily graphite and charcoal, his early work combined virtuoso drawing with a cathartic expressionism. Limrite later introduced color as commandingly as his early black and white work. The result was a powerful yet lyric interpretation of the human condition.

Limrite's current mixed media drawings recreate or reinvent the human figure in both the formal aspects of portraying it and in its ability to convey emotions.

Limrite's studio and home are in La Crescenta, CA. He taught drawing and painting at Art Center College of Design for 12 years and is in his 18th year of teaching at Brentwood Art Center where he is currently the Director of Education.

--Mario Ontivers

additional text by C. Jordan Blaquera

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