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David Hazlett is a printmaker, painter, and educator working in Providence, Rhode Island. He studied art as an undergraduate at Colorado College, and received his Master in Fine Art from Arizona State University.

David's process for making work combines his playful spontaneity, quiet reflection and meditation. David's intention is "to show the ephemeral and the eternal nature of objects that exist in a deteriorated, rusted, or otherwise imperfect state."

His subject matter is gathered from a range of areas including celestial constellations, skylines, and his personal collection of found objects that are rusted, worn and weathered.

David's modes of work include encaustic painting, monoprinting, etching, and works on paper. By scratching, melting, staining, and polishing the surfaces of his pieces, David creates images with multiple luminous layers of information. These layers lend to the feeling that each piece has survived time and transformation, and has emerged as a beautifully reinvented form. He layers beeswax, tar, pigment, precious metals, and printed imagery on wooden or paper supports.