David McPherson is a native of New Orleans and graduate of Carnegie Mellon University. His education includes formal programs in architecture and digital media as well as numerous workshops in sculpture, drawing and painting. He lived for 15 years in Los Angeles, immersed in the downtown art scene, with showings at the Brewery Art Lofts events as well as the South LaBrea Gallery. He returned to New Orleans in 2013 and currently lives in the French Quarter where the historic architecture and vibrant neighborhoods along the river have become the focus of his attention.

McPherson’s recent work reads like a dialogue between New Orleans architecture and postwar abstraction: grounded in the French Quarter, yet increasingly willing to let color, movement, and structure drift beyond literal description.The most compelling aspect is his tension between place and pictorial autonomy—the city remains legible, but it is filtered through expressive brushwork, bold contour, and a taste for surreal, near-abstract transformation.