Donald K. Sultan

About

Donald K. Sultan, born in 1951 in Asheville, North Carolina, is an American painter, sculptor, and printmaker renowned for his large-scale still life paintings that challenge traditional boundaries between painting and sculpture. He rose to prominence in the late 1970s as part of the 'New Image' movement, employing industrial materials such as roofing tar, enamel, spackle, aluminum, linoleum, and vinyl tiles to deconstruct everyday subjects like fruits, flowers, lemons, poppies, dominos, and dice into monumental, abstracted forms. Sultan's technique involves layering these materials on Masonite or plywood, gouging, sanding, and buffing to create textured, flat yet dimensional compositions that emphasize positive and negative space, blending industrial weight with organic fragility.[1][2][3][5]

New Image movement, large-scale abstracted still lifes with industrial materials