David Kesting
ABOUT DAVID KESTING
David Kesting is an artist whose work reflects a keen interest in the tensions and vulnerabilities of human relationships. With recent works on paper, collage and painting, he explores situations through the Fat Man, a character critical of others whose words appear as sarcastic remarks, disapproving comments or secret advice. The Fat Man’s gestures and interactions with others reveal a subtle and complex relationship with a difficult world he must observe from afar. Kesting grew up in Florida and has been a New York resident for over ten years, where he attended Hunter College. He is the co-founder of Leo Kesting Gallery and Capla Kesting Fine Art. In 2006, Kesting launched Fountain in collaboration with several other Williamsburg, Brooklyn galleries. As an alternative to the traditional art fairs, Fountain presents an independent, DIY aesthetic and has been described by Artnet as “the place where you reminisce about the good old days, when you did it yourself, when inspiration and magic struck like a bolt from the blue.” Fountain has taken place in New York, Miami and Chicago.
