Ivy’s Projects is pleased to present Trinidad and Tobago, a solo exhibition of new paintings by Brooklyn-based artist King David (David Rampersad, Jr.), on view at our temporary project space located at 410 Jefferson Avenue, Brooklyn, NY. The opening reception will take place on September 18, 2025 from 6-8pm at 410 Jefferson Avenue. The exhibition will remain on view until November 20, 2025.

In this deeply personal and significantly rich body of work, King David reflects on heritage, ritual, and remembrance through the lens of abstraction. Rooted in his first trip to his father’s Caribbean homeland, the works examine diasporic memory, Hindu spiritual practices, and the symbolic weight of nature, light, and familial bonds. Utilizing window screens as both metaphor and tool, David creates tactile surfaces where paint, gesture, and spirit intersect. Each piece functions as both ritual and visual offering, shaped by the resonance of his cultural and painterly explorations.

Drawing on a broad range of materials such as found metal, copper, wood, and plexiglass, Trinidad and Tobago offers a meditation on healing, presence, and belonging, while honoring the complexities of personal and collective identity shaped by the artist’s Caribbean upbringing.

David’s screen painting technique repurposes the window screen as a tool, pushing paint through the grid to create layered color fields and intricate textures. This method produces pixelated gradients and patterns that overlap, merging with organic fluidity and transforming a domestic material into a contemporary tool of abstraction.

One of the earliest works from King David’s ongoing screen painting experiments, Rainbow screen painting marks a shift toward minimalism and lightness. Using a reclaimed set of wooden panels, once used as desktops, the artist lays the window screen across the surface, then pushes oil paint through using gestures like pouring, dripping, flattening, and splattering. The tool not only filters the paint but also recalls the way light gently passes through a window screen, creating a soft, diffused texture. In contrast to David’s more maximalist, impasto works, this piece embraces the sparseness of each layer, inviting stillness while subtly honoring the materials’ previous lives. Here, process and memory converge, mirroring the quiet parallels between art-making and everyday life.