About
David Yepez is an artist and designer living and working in New York City.
His work sails the delta between futurism and traditional craftsmanship. David combines themes of science and mathematics to create design objects and sculpture with an organic sensibility. Utilizing these themes he illustrates the contemporary quest for knowledge in an ever complexing information economy. The imperative of scientific and technological advancement for a thriving humanity in the 21st century are threaded throughout his work.
David's work focuses on the seamless merger of the physical and digital worlds by experimenting with materials and incorporating technology in meaningful and innovative ways. His work is frequently realized as multimedia combined with non-traditional mediums. Invisible tech elements run their functions while respecting the integrity of the physical object.
Combining these fabrication styles with his passions for astrophysics, and mathematics, David finds inspiration in the exploration of the unknown. Our collective humanity's need to imagine a better future is a constant theme.
David has said, “Since I was a small child I imagined what the future might hold, all of the amazing things I would see in my lifetime, and now as an adult I find the same awe in imagining all of the things that I will never get to see.”
Materials themselves play a commanding role in David’s process; in the multimedia piece, Dante’s Music Box, he combines photography, wood and electronics, with an added interactive tech element for a transcendent music box experience. Utilizing non-traditional materials in unexpected ways, like forming a bamboo texture from bullet casings, is another example of pushing the boundaries of traditional fabrication while acknowledging fabrication's cultural impact.
In a world where the digital and the physical worlds are usually addressed separately, David seeks to not close the gap, but to fuse the two with traditionally crafted, provocative, inspiring work.