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David Kessler
Large Acrylic Photorealist Painting Nature Scene Water & Light David Kessler

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DAVID KESSLER (American born 1950 - ) Greyed Magic #2 (Water and Light Series) Acrylic on canvas Hand signed and titled with artist's studio stamp on verso 60 inches x 84 inches David T. Kessler was born in Park Ridge, New Jersey in 1950. He attended Arizona State University, where he received the award for Outstanding Graduate in Studio Art in 1972. In 1973, David was one of 12 painters accepted into the graduate program at The San Francisco Art Institute, where he received his M.F.A. in 1975. He is well known for his holographic airbrush paintings on aluminum. His paintings have been exhibited internationally since 1977, with shows in Tokyo, Strasbourg, Chicago, Los Angeles, Miami, Scottsdale, and New York. Kessler's paintings are in the permanent collections of The Strasbourg Contemporary Museum of Art, The Brooklyn Museum, The Minnesota Museum of Art, The Museum of the Rhode Island School of Design, The Santa Barbara Museum, The Barrington Art Center, and others. Within Arizona, his work is in the collections of The Phoenix Art Museum, The Scottsdale Center for the Arts, The Tucson Museum of Art, Arizona State University Art Museum, and Northern Arizona University Art Museum. Photorealism is a genre of art that encompasses painting, drawing and other graphic media. An American art movement that began in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Photorealism evolved from Pop Art as a counter to Abstract Expressionism as well as Minimalist art movements. Though Photorealists share some aspects of American realists, such as Edward Hopper, they tried to set themselves as much apart from traditional realists as they did Abstract Expressionists. Photorealists were much more influenced by the work of Pop artists and were reacting against Abstract Expressionism. The word Photorealism was coined by Louis K. Meisel in 1969 and appeared in print for the first time in 1970 in a Whitney Museum catalogue for the show "Twenty-two Realists." It is also sometimes labeled as Super-Realism, New Realism, Sharp Focus Realism, or Hyper-Realism. The first generation of American Photorealists includes the painters Richard Estes, Ralph Goings, Chuck Close, Charles Bell, Audrey Flack, Don Eddy, Robert Bechtle, Ron Kleemann, Richard McLean, John Salt, John Kacere, and Robert Cottingham. Photorealism's influence and popularity continues to grow, with new books such as Juxtapoz's 2014 book entitled Hyperreal detailing current trends within the artistic genre. Selected Museum and Public Collections: Achenbach Foundation (San Francisco, CA) Arizona State University Art Museum (Tempe, AZ) Barrington Arts Center (Barrington, IL) Brooklyn Museum of Art (Brooklyn, NY) Davidson College (Davidson, NC) De Anza College (Cupertino, CA) Minnesota Museum of Art (St. Paul, MN) Monterey Peninsula Museum of Art (Monterey, CA) Northern Arizona University Art Museum (Flagstaff, AZ) Phoenix Art Museum (Phoenix, AZ) Portsmouth Community Arts Center (Portsmouth, OR) Santa Barbara Museum of Art (Santa Barbara, CA) Scottsdale Center for the Arts (Scottsdale, AZ) Strasbourg Museum of Contemporary Art (Strasbourg, France) Tucson Museum of Art (Tucson, AZ) University of Minnesota (St. Paul, MN) Select Exhibitions Stricoff Fine Art, New York, NY Dean Day Gallery, Houston, TX Phoenix Airport Museum, Phoenix, AZ Susan Street Gallery, Solana Beach, CA Bentley Projects, Phoenix, AZ Etra Fine Art, Miami, FL Art Basel, Miami, FL OK Harris Works of Art, New York, NY Meyer East Gallery, Santa Fe, NM Bentley Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ Ogilvie-Pertl Gallery, Chicago, IL Davis Dominguez Gallery, Tucson, AZ Vanier Galleries, Scottsdale, AZ Riva Yares Gallery, Santa Fe, NM Northern Arizona University Art Museum, Flagstaff, AZ Elaine Horwitch Galleries, Scottsdale, AZ
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