ABOUT DAVID KESTING

David Kesting [b. 1974, Florida] is a Brooklyn-based artist whose work reflects a keen interest in the tensions and vulnerabilities of human relationships. His works on paper, collage and paintings explore situations through the Fat Man, a character critical of others whose words appear as sarcastic remarks, disapproving comments or secret ad-vice. 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’s work has been exhibited in New York, Miami and Chicago and is included in numerous private collections. He is also the co-founder of Leo Kesting Gallery and Capla Kesting Fine Art, both in New York. In 2006, Kesting launched the Fountain event in collaboration with several other Williamsburg, Brooklyn galleries.

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