Comments from Supporters
“Your construct is the constant - it’s always perfect. The water is the variable - it’s always changing. It’s always evolving, and it’s alive. And so by being that precise, it allows you to really appreciate the difference. And when you look at these drawings and you look at these models, it emphasizes the precision, but also emphasizes the way this has a very man-made, thoughtful quality. But the minute you start pouring the water into it, it starts to take off; it starts to have its own life. And then when you place it out in the landscape, that contrast becomes even more profound.”
Christopher Sharples
Principal and Co-Founder, SHoP Architects
“I am pleased to write a letter of recommendation for David Teeple. I first became familiar with David's work in 2002 through our mutual friend, the late, noted contemporary art collector, Robert Orton Jr. of La Jolla, CA. When David had a solo exhibition at The La Jolla Athenaeum the following year my company purchased one of the major pieces from the show. The large wall mounted sculpture weighing nearly half a ton was installed in our San Diego facility in the executive office suite.
The following year I invited David to the ResMed world headquarters in Sydney, Australia to tour our new research, manufacturing, and executive campus. From that visit, ResMed commissioned four large-scale site-specific sculptures and purchased more than seventy other works for our corporate collection.”
Peter Farrell
Founder, Chairman, and former CEO of ResMed
“For what it is worth, my collection has many major sculptures, Giacometti, LeWitt, Calder, etc. As such I’ve followed David Teeple's career with interest and collect his work and ideas.
David's work is magical as it combines the most advanced aesthetic ideas with the common touch. It challenges and inspires the visual as well as the spiritual.”
“A genius in every way, his vision onto and beyond WATER excites me more than any I’ve met in many years - he has the divine touch. Looking forward to seeing his art play out. With respect and awe.”
Herbert Lust
(Author. Books on: Giacometti, Bellmer, Indiana, and Baj )
“Nearly waist-deep in the Mill River, his camera trained on the coursing water, Teeple looks like an empiricist of another kind... a scientist intent on collecting the data needed for the defense of a hypothesis; and, in fact, he accumulates data in astonishing abundance by changing the location of his tripod and varying the focus of his lens. Culled and arranged in the gridded formats of ‘An Anatomy of Water’, these findings show the wide range of aqueous variety we have already seen. From set to set, water takes on a new personality.”
“All we can know with certainty is that Teeple’s deployment of his water-filled cuboids relieves them of their geometric simplicity, replacing it with the spectacle of endlessly mutable refractions interacting with reflections of sky and trees and building and with the pattern of condensation covering the underside of a tank’s lid. Sculptures simple in structure become complex in experience.”
Carter Ratcliff
Author of Numerous Art Books