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Olympos – Upward Gaze
In Olympos: Upward Gaze, the mountains rise not as boundaries but as thresholds — silhouettes that draw the eye toward the weightless expanse above them. Here, the sky becomes an abstract plane of emotion, shifting between deep greens, wine tones, indigo, and midnight blue. The landscape is no longer anchored to the earth; it is lifted into the realm of the imagined, where color becomes atmosphere and atmosphere becomes memory.
The upward compositions invite a quieter form of longing — a reaching beyond what is visible. The mountains remain as ancient witnesses, but the true subject is the space above them: the place where breath expands, thought loosens, and the world feels briefly unbound.
This series continues my exploration of the threshold between realism and abstraction, but with a more ascendant energy — an opening rather than a grounding. If Earthbound Gaze listens to the hush of the land, Upward Gaze listens to the silence of the sky. Together, they form a meditation on presence, perception, and the infinite ways a landscape can hold us.
A graduate of Parsons School of Design in NYC, David Drebin is a multidisciplinary artist working in various art forms producing limited edition works including Photographs, Lightboxes, Neon Light Installations, Diamond Dust works and more.
Following his first solo exhibition at Camera Work in Berlin in 2005 and the release of his first comprehensive illustrated book “Love and Other Stories” in 2007, Drebin experienced a stream of representation by some of the most prestigious galleries around the globe.
Drebin’s artworks also known as “Drebins” are unique and instantly recognizable as his own. His artistic style is often described as epic, dramatic and, above all, cinematic. Drebin has released eight books with teNeues publishing including “The Morning After”, “Beautiful Disasters”, “Chasing Paradise”, “Dreamscapes”, “Love and Lights”, “Before They Were Famous”, “Collectors Edition” an oversized limited edition monograph and the most recently released “Flirting With Danger”. Drebin’s books are distributed through the finest bookstores around the world.
His work combines voyeuristic and psychological viewpoints in a unique manner, offering the viewer a dramatic insight into emotions and experiences which many of us have doubtlessly felt at some point in our lives.






