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  • from the series Untitled (Shadow Work)
    from the series "Untitled (Shadow Work)"
  • Center Arts & Studios
    Center Arts & Studios
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  • from the series Untitled (Shadow Work)
    from the series "Untitled (Shadow Work)"

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About David

Baltimore City   Baltimore County  

ARTIST STATEMENT
Untitled (Shadow Work) uses psychiatric techniques and printmaking methods to research and
develop healing processes and forms for communities and individuals that are experiencing grief in order
to steward collective and personal recovery.

I started Untitled (Shadow Work) in 2019 to commemorate the daily death of young Baltimore men. With
no way to appropriately express the grief and pervasive denial of the mourning necessary for our urban… more

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Center Arts & Studios

Center Arts and Studios – founded by artist David Cloutier (he/him) – is an emerging atelier and intentional creative community that provides studio space, education, mentorship, and therapy to aging, transitioning, and multi-career artists. Our work affirms the agency of the artist and the objects of their making across and because of lived experience. We believe in the power of art to speak and the responsibility of the artist to listen, learn, and grow. We aim to support artists in their personal and professional growth no matter where or when their journey begins. By late-career artists and educators for older-adults, additional contributors to Center Arts and Studios support the multifaceted stages of artistic growth and development through rigorous research and personalized professional development.


Located in the Mill Center, Center Arts and Studios is embedded in the Hampden neighbourhood and part of the historic Jones Falls River Valley of Baltimore City, Maryland.

  • Center Arts & Studios
    Center Arts & Studios
  • Center Arts & Studios
    Center Arts & Studios
  • Center Arts & Studios
  • Center Arts & Studios

    • p a i n t i n g

    • the trench
      the trench

      The Trench 2019 Oil, Ink, Monotype on Arches 356gsm watercolor paper. 152” x 80”
      Odysseus’s trench calls guides from below. Fire burns in the sky above.

    • killed man
      killed man

      Killed Man 2019, Oil, Ink, Monotype on Arches 356gsm watercolor paper. 148” x 76”
      Homer sung of our youth dead in battle. By spears or drone the body is pierced. Stones wait above. The shallow grave refuses to be forgotten.

    • adam and eve
      adam and eve

      Adam and Eve 2018 Oil, Ink, Monotype on Arches 356gsm water- color paper.

      The Adams observe Eve. They pose and leer, watchful and obscene. Eve rides upon her avatar of snakes.

    • COVID 2020
      COVID 2020

      Covid 2020, Oil, Ink, Monotype on Arches 356gsm watercolor paper. 104” x 78”
      Ribs below flowers above numbering losses. Bones quietly talk through the night.

    • pire
      pire

      Pire 2021 Oil, Ink, on Arches 356gsm watercolor paper.

  • the trench
  • killed man
  • adam and eve
  • COVID 2020
  • pire

    • w o r k (s) o n p a p e r

    • jonah and the whale
      jonah and the whale

      Jonah and The Whale 2023 48” x 28.5” plate sizes variable. Dry- point and Monotype on Arches Cover

      Jonah sleeps and dreams of his descent. Above, storm and sailors await.

    • study (for jonah and the whale)
      study (for jonah and the whale)

      Study for Jonah and the Whale 48” x 28.5” Drypoint and Monotype on Arches Cover

    • study (for suiters)
      study (for suiters)

      Study for Suiters Playing petteia 2023 10”x 6” . Drypoint on Arches Cover

    • The Suiters Playing Petteia
      The Suiters Playing Petteia

      The Suiters Playing Petteia 2023 22” x 19.5” plate size variable. Drypoint on Arches Cover

      The Suiters play petteia on the steps of Odysseus’s castle, arrogance blinds them to their doom.

  • jonah and the whale
  • study (for jonah and the whale)
  • study (for suiters)
  • The Suiters Playing Petteia

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      Telemachuss & Athena | Obelisks | Greeting in Solidarity | Guiding for Direction

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      Loom | Penelope’s Loom | Reaching Down

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      Boat | Flower(s) | Gravestones | Decent & Decending

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      Boat | Flower(s) | Gravestones | Decent & Descending

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      Boat | Flower(s) | Gravestones | Decent & Descending

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      Boat | Flower(s) | Gravestones | Decent & Descending

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      Untitled (Shadow Work) 

      work in progress

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