Born in New York City in 1965, David Brian Fludd was introduced to art by his father, also an artist. Fludd received his M.F.A. from Yale University in 1991 and a B.A. from Morehouse College in 1987. At New York University and Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Fludd studied printmaking. In 1988, he captured a first place award at the Heckscher Museum Annual Art Competition for his small untitled oil that, according to a New York Times reviewer, "fairly leapt from the wall in spite of being hung high above another picture." In 1992 Fludd was Artist-in-Residence at the Studio Museum in Harlem, and in 1993 he was a Yaddo Artist-in-Residence recipient and a Provincetown Visual Art Fellow. Notably Fludd was a 1998 Solomon Guggenheim Fellow. He was the recipient of a 1999 -2000 Rome Prize, whereby he lived and studied in Rome.

Only Fludd can articulate his mode of creation as fact ends and speculation begins.   Fludd states, "I explore the developmental discourse of a painting. Language comprised of a visual vocabulary generating from a dialectical painting origin. Perception and information always change a viewpoint. One may look at a painting on an occasion and afterwards read a book and experience a cultural revelation, then return to the same painting and have a completely new experience. This is a prevailing characteristic of painting. The art of perception is complex in that it requires a language of insightful recognition and understanding. Language that puts concepts into relationships to form spheres of communication. I am interested in the logical argumentation of counterparts.   This concept is a component of my painting vocabulary. My compositional organization of the subject matter welcomes deliberation. I accentuate the origin of subject matter. In fact words are images originating from cultures. My paintings probe reality itself. In response, I choose dialogue rather than linear narratives. I select, compose and offer a new interpretation of painting in the infinite culture of the universe.  

Fludd's art has received critical acclaim in the New Art Examiner, New York Times, Newsday, The Detroit Free Press, The Detroit News, among other print media. Says biographer Luisa Washington Chapman:  "[Fludd's] passionate visions are charged with a riveting expressionism incorporating a feverish display of surface techniques and textures.... For all the tactile effusions he achieves Fludd's work, amazingly, has the clarity of a line drawing, and reflects his extraordinary talent for talking with a brush...recall[ing] Renaissance masters."