David Flitner

ARTIST

David Flitner has been making his living as an oil painter for over 20 years. His love for the arts has translated into a very satisfying lifetime career. He thrives on the challenge of bringing color, intensity and shape together in paintings to convey his vision to others. Whether he is painting on location in the desert or in his studio, David is at home with his paintbrush and considers himself on a lifetime journey of art exploration.

David obtained a degree at the University of Arizona and continued his formal training at the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena. One of his Grand Canyon paintings was reproduced in the Arizona Highways magazine and later displayed in the special exhibition of “A Backward Glance at Arizona Highways Illustrators” at the Phippen Museum of Western Art (April, 2000). Though primarily an oil painter, David has created several bronze works, one of which was reproduced in the Southwest Art Magazine calendar. He was commissioned to create a special edition Wildcat bronze for the University of Arizona and was the featured artist in the University of Arizona Alumni Art Show in 2002. His work has been displayed in Phoenix city government and corporate buildings nationally. His work is found in private collections nationally and internationally, including those of Burt Reynolds and Ann Miller. David has shown in one-man and multi-artist shows and his artwork has been represented in fine galleries in Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico, Wyoming and California.

David is a member of the Oil Painters of America and the International Guild of Realism. He enjoys and is active in his local art community and often leads art critiques for the Tempe Artists Guild and Scottsdale Artists League. He is a member of the Arizona Plein Air Painters Association. David was one of the featured artists in the 2004 American Diabetes Association’s Celebrity Art Auction Gala, artistically collaborating with Jonathan Elias, News Anchor of ABC-KNXV TV in Phoenix, Arizona. In April of 2005, David was an honoree at the Best of Scottsdale Art Show and Gala in Scottsdale, Arizona for his landscapes. David was the featured artist in the SkyWest Magazine (Delta and United Airlines, January and February issue, 2006) with an article entitled, “Cloud Interpreter,” and was included in the magazine’s cover story, “Arizona’s Art And Soul.” In September 2007, David was an invited artist to give a presentation at the Tlaquepaque State of the Art event in Sedona, Arizona. David was a featured artist in the October, 2007 Southwest Living issue of the Scottsdale Magazine in an article entitled, “Art and Soul: Artists of the Southwest.”