David Simpson is an American abstract painter. His two-toned or monochromatic abstractions vary in their texture and application of paint, resulting in meditative compositions that continue the tradition of Post-Painterly Abstraction that Simpson helped found along with Ellsworth Kelly and Kenneth Noland. Simpson’s career can be loosely organized into three distinct aesthetic periods that the artist describes as landscape-based abstraction, relational abstraction, and interference painting. His more recent work often employs unconventional formal means, including applying mica particles to painted surfaces with electricity to create unexpected corporeal forms. Simpson cites a variety of influences for his work, noting that he was &ldquo...