About

"Traits, Tendencies, and Acts" marks the second solo show by the Texas-based gay artist David
Willburn. The show is the artist's first as a represented artist by FLXST Contemporary.

Pastiche, collage, and the use of craft techniques of mixed media define Willburn's abstract
paintings. Quotidian rituals, like daily walks, train commutes, and meditation, instantiate the ideas
that reside at the heart of his work. Layered atop the quotidian is the artist's autobiography,
coming to his gay identity in rural Texas. Woven strips on his canvases stand in for the parcels
of farmlands …