David Kessler: Shifting Waterscapes

DAVID T. KESSLER
SHIFTING WATERSCAPES
12 New Paintings, March 4-29
Opening Reception Friday, March 4, 6-9pm

Artist David T. Kessler possesses an ability to bridge the gap between what is considered real and what is illusion. His paintings manipulate our perception. Altering or enhancing reality is the very crux of what artists do, and their success at attaining this is usually a defining element as to their stature in the field, as either an abstract or realist painter. Occasionally an artist is able to combine these two distinct disciplines and create an art form which balances the paradox of a flat surface with the illusion of depth and space. David T. Kessler is one of those artists.

David's upcoming exhibition at Bentley Gallery will feature 12 of his newest complex and consummately crafted Photo-Realist paintings that invoke both the Romantic response to nature - one that eulogizes the sublime, awe-inspiring vista - and the Classical response to landscape, which is lyrical and domesticated.

David Kessler was born in New Jersey. He received a BFA degree from Arizona State University and MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute. His paintings have been exhibited in Europe and Asia, and throughout the United States, including Chicago, Los Angeles, Miami and New York. Kessler’s paintings are in the permanent collections of the Brooklyn Museum, the Minnesota Museum of Art and the United States Embassy, among others. He is represented in the corporate collections of Northern Trust Bank, Phoenix, IBM, Prudential Life Insurance, McDonald’s, AT&T, Clorox and others. He lives and works in Scottsdale, Arizona.