David Gerstein is widely considered to be one of the most creative and innovative artists in the world today.
He has exhibited extensively at international venues in London, Paris, Frankfurt, Berlin, Rome, Singapore, New York and the list goes on.
David lived in New York through the experimental 70s and saw first hand the rise of conceptual art. But he chose to reject the new orthodoxy, saying he wanted to use painting “as a space for creating objects.
Remaining in the realm of concept has never meant art for me personally”. David saw his desire to paint bear fruit and his dark brooding style became very successful. But still the need to experiment tugged at the artist. He kept coming back to the pop culture obsessions of his youth – cartoons, billboards, household packaging, and children’s toys. And after much innovation, David began making wall sculptures fashioned by laser cutting and applied with car paint. With the advent of computing, he was able to translate his drawings into perfectly rendered templates that could be accurately reproduced in the metalworking studio. The delirious results have fans all over the world, including celebrity collectors such as Lance Armstrong. They’re drawn to the work for the same reasons as anyone else – humor, energy, beauty, joy. And there’s plenty of all that in this new collection. Here again are the shoes, the cyclists, the cows, the runners. And the butterflies are back too, of course, taking the place of flowers in the still life ‘Symbiosis’, replacing collagen to make ‘Burning Lips’ and buzzing helplessly round a lugubrious looking light bulb in ‘Attraction’.
Exhibitions
1995 “Art Multiple”, Dûsseldorf Conzen
1996 Center of Performing Arts, Moria Gallery, Washington D.C. “Art Multiple”, Dûsseldorf
Zimmermann und Heitmann Gallery, Dortmund Breitbach Gallery, Unna
1997 “Encircled People”, Rosenfeld Gallery, Dûsseldorf Galerie IM Kornbrennerei Museum, Telgte
Edition of Art, Innsbruck Gallery 33, Essen Gallery Ostendorf, Mûnster
1998 Gallery Regenbogen, Stuttgart Gallery Menzel, Bad Honef Gallery Auf der Treppe, Limburg Gallery
Konig, Darmstadt
1999 Ambassador Gallery, Palm Beach, FL Gallery Silecchia, Sarasota, FL Newbury Fine Art Gallery,
Boston Stricoff Gallery, New York Aduko France Fine Art, Lyon Art Symbol, Paris Art Seiffer, St Paul de
Vence Gallery Plakart, Frankfurt Gallery Veith, Ludwigsburg Gallery Hohmann, Koln Gallery Krombholz,
Koln
2000 Gallery 33, Essen Gallery Fischerplatz, Ulm Galerie de Cannes, Cannes Galeria Chabonion le Baron,
Lareunion Art Symbol, Paris Galleria di Sorrento, Las Vegas, NV Danielle Peleg, West Bloomfield, MI
Gallery “PZ”, Krefeld
2001 New River Gallery, Ft. Lauderdale, FL Galleria Silecchia, Sarasota, FL Stricoff Gallery, New York
Newbury Fine Art, Boston Barrington Gallery of London, New York
2001 “Tango Sur Seine”, paintings, Artists House, Jerusalem.
2001 “The Private Sector”, Meirov Municipal Art Gallery, Holon.
2002 “Balance Trial”, The Municipal Gallery “On the Cliff”, Netania.
2002 Osklen Multimedia Space, Ipanema, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
2002 Peter’s Gallery, Nicosia, Cyprus.
2002 Mensing Gallery, Hamm, Germany.
2002 “No Favorite Color”, Street Installation during Documenta, Kassel , Germany.
2002 Nord L/B Gallery, Hannover, Germany.
2003 Nuances et Lumiere Gallery, Lyon, France
2003 Clube A Hebrica, Sao-Paulo, Brazil
2003 Galery Genner-Duisburg, Germany