David Henderson

HENDERSON is an MD by education, a psychiatrist by profession, and an artist by compulsion. A master storyteller, he employs a multidisciplinary approach to expression that is as dysphemistic as it is redemptive, allowing contradiction to remain unresolved. His work emerges from sustained engagement with psychological extremity—both observed and lived—where cognition fractures, reforms, and resists coherence.

Hidden beneath donned accoutrements of formality, decency, and decorum, his subjects are often whimsically gaunt, tremulous, even disembodied. Figures appear suspended between agency and collapse, bearing the weight of consequence, vulnerability, and survival. These forms carry—quietly and without spectacle—the paradoxes shared by artist and viewer alike: light and shadow, spirit and beast, calling and chaos.

HENDERSON’s practice treats each work as a record rather than a resolution—archival evidence of internal states shaped by disruption, reckoning, and endurance. His surfaces hold traces of revision and return, reflecting a belief forged through experience: that meaning is not found in transcendence alone, but in confrontation—and that, sometimes, it is in the falling we find our faith.

Wright State University School of Medicine
University of South Carolina, Psychiatry

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