Rubello's compositions explore interrelationships of clear geometric planes and volumes in space. In all cases the viewer tends to read the geometric shapes as if they were pictures of sculptural 3-dimensional shapes. The poetry of space and the energy of the compositions lie in the varying ways Rubello sets up tensions between the possible three-dimensional existence and the reality of optical illusion. Excerpts from Diane Kirkpatrick concerning the work of David Rubello
