“Palmer's strokes are breathtakingly seductive and technically mystifying - so crucially human.....”

“David Palmer’s paintings at Clark Gallery are undeniably showy and irresistible, but they’re also made with astonishing technique. Palmer uses a 27-inch brush loaded with electric blue paint, and makes each of his square paintings with a single stroke. Some are more than 6 feet square. It’s a calligraphic feat, and it must be choreographic to witness. The gesture, in a painting such as “Niki,’’ angles and loops and swirls, curling like a surfer’s wave or deepening into eddies. The paint comes off the brush thick as syrup here, dryer and streaked with white there. You can’t tell the beginning from the end. The juicy mark careens over a surface so white and pristine it could be porcelain, which makes the blue pop. Splendid.”