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David Schluss - Official Artist, USA Olympic Team "2008 Beijing, China'' -
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla.--(Business Wire)--Smart Publishing is proud to announce that artist, David Schluss has been chosen as an official artist for the USA Olympic Team for the2008 Beijing, China Summer Olympic Games. Mr. Schluss was selected earlier this year to create a painting to submit to the USOC (United States Olympic Committee) for approval of the Olympic poster project. After submitting some ideas and prototypes to the USOC, they chose the painting "We Are the Champions" as an official painting. This piece will be reproduced as an official poster as well as a silkscreen serigraph to be released in limited edition.
 
Aventura, 2005
David Schluss - Drawing upon himself -
Schluss will tell you. It's the man who makes a conscious decision to do so. "I like funny things, I like humor. I have come to this over the years as my youth was quite sad in a way, and as I grew up. I realized that there is more to it than being san and melancholy. I like to laugh. Absolutely, it was a choice." he says.
 
Art World News
David Schluss - Sculptor of paintings -
Lucky accidents inform the work of artist David Schluss. As a young student, he was working on a painting and created a passage he did not like. As any artist might, he grabbed a rag to undo the damage. But in wiping off the robust female form, he made a discovery that changed his artistic life. The smudged, semi-realistic image created with the rag was more interesting then the image he had created with a brush.
 
Coral Springs Forum, 7.25, 2002
Trying to erase the hate -
Hope for tolerance was rekindled Sunday when about 100 people showed up to lend their hands in turning an ugly experience to one of solidarity.
They enlisted the help of artist David Schluss, an Israeli patriot living in Deerfield Beach. After painting over the swastikas. Schluss turned the walls into images of people dancing.
 
Sun-Sentinel, 7.22, 2002
Mural replaces temple graffiti -
Neighbors help paint out vandalism. Almost two weeks have passed since Coral Springs resident Paula Canning heard along with many others in her community, that the nearby Chabad Lubavitch temple had been attacked by anti-Semitic vandals. Community volunteers, government agencies, other Jewish temples and corporate donors teamed up with Deerfield Beach artist David Schluss to paint over the graffiti, replacing it with a colorful mural depicting people dancing and celebrating on Jerusalem's Western Wall.
 
The Herald, 7.22.2002
Covering Up Hate -
Daphna More. 9, fills in the lines of David Schluss' mural Sunday morning at the Chabad of Coral Springs as Danielle Zfat. 9, observes. The building was defaced with swastikas over the July 4 weekend, and members of the community, including U.S. Rep. Clay Shaw, R-Fort Lauderdale, helped with the artwork.
 
Sun-Sentinel, 7.16.2002
From hatred to harmony -
Artist transforms graffiti on Springs temple into mural. A symbol of hate will become one of hope when and Israeli artist transforms a vandal's swastikas on a temple wall into a work of art.