David was born in San Antonio, Texas but grew up in California. After a stint in the Marines which included a tour in Viet-Nam, Rivas attended design school at the LA Mart, however, his talent as an artist didn't appear until a color photography class at Ventura College gave him the tools to produce the imagery that is his art. Rivas photographs such mundane things as broken glass, oily waste water, or fragments of graffiti. However, Rivas feels that the subject matter in his dynamic photographs is not as important as the viewers interpretation of them. The distorted...more