all about David Lyles…
David Lyles is a Neo-Expressionist artist based in Detroit with an unmistakable brand of contemporary art. His primitive-looking but complex paintings are highly textural, his expressive brushwork and intense colors laden with powerful imagery, carry a great deal of meaning.
Beside his large canvas paintings that will remind you of Jean Michel Basquiat’s style, David also paints on jackets, tee shirts, sneakers, designers handbags and purses, luggage, musical instruments, and everything that inspires his wild imagination.
“David Lyles primitivism and neo-expressionism artworks is vividly colorful. His work explores his mixed African American heritage through a visual vocabulary of personally resonant signs, symbols, and figures.”
G. Marti
