Psychic City 2025 collection
The Psychic City 2025 edition are made with water based ink and acrylic paints on Arches watercolor 300lb paper. They are floated in Ash frames with white wash finish & museum quality non-glare acrylic. They were framed locally by Jameson & Thompson Picture Framers.
Psychic city:Ghost town
$3000
Psychic city:Sphinx
$3000
Psychic city:The vastness noticed me notice it
$3000
David Hochbaum, an artist based in Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts, and a 1995 graduate of the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, presents three new works from his Psychic City project. Originating in 2009, this project has evolved, culminating in these 2024-2025 pieces. Using layered silkscreens, water-based inks, acrylics, and pencil on 300lb Arches watercolor paper, these works embody serpentine fluidity, reflecting Hochbaum's fascination with organic chaos. Each piece invites viewers into a realm where the city's pulse merges with the artist's own journey, drawing on both personal history and the timeless dance of nature.
At its core, Psychic City is about adaptation—the way spaces shape us as much as we shape them. The houses, layered and repeated, are not fixed structures but living forms, shifting with time and experience. They lean into one another, tangle, and rise, creating a sense of movement that feels both organic and inevitable. These compositions reflect the tension between permanence and impermanence, between the instinct to root and the pull to drift. Built through layers of silkscreen, paint, and pencil, each piece captures a moment in that ongoing cycle, where history, memory, and energy fold into one another like a city that is never quite finished.