“Hell is empty, and all the devils are here…” The Tempest-William Shakespeare “Infernal-The Denouement” chronicles Dante’s nine circles through the prism of T.S Eliots Wasteland, against the Brutalist urban decay of the artists Liverpool, Catholic upbringing. Raw, visceral and elegiac, this final series represents Van Gough’s darkly cathartic reveries as revelation, created during a tumultuous […]
Following on directly from “Purgatorium”, “Paradiso’s Fall” utilizes elements from Milton’s classic work, and the corruption of Eden as a mythological set piece for my own autumn of years, the fall of man, and the prevailing dark age we live in. Through this series of paintings there are ill omens to the end times. The […]
In his forty-fifth Year, David Van Gough embarked upon a series which would finally confront the daunting shadow cast by his most famous ancestor
From Aleister Crowley to Charles Manson, Liverpool to LA, MAN/SON explores an artistic evocation of America’s occult underbelly.
Dealing with broad questions of religious dogma and human origin,
Following in quick succession from the Theothanatos series, the Ghost paintings used deconstructed figurative forms as a motif for the decay of memory.
Collected sketches, illustrations and drawing from Van Gough’s archive.
Comprising Artwork spanning 2003 to 2008-Dream Orphans, is Van Gough’s chimerical odyssey through the nether worlds and personal demons of his wierd imaginings.
Spanning from fall 2014 until the early Spring of 2017, the body of work here represents the paintings produced at studio V, La Bodega gallery, in the historic chicano quarter of Barrio Logan.
From the period encompassing 1987 to 1997, comprising some of the nascent works from my earlier years as an artist.