David Molesky: Art Lecture
"A woven tale of my journey as an artist with the resurgence of figurative painting. A brief history of the disappearance of figurative art and explanation for its return. Discussion of the New York art market, which I have been involved with for the last 7 years as an arts journalist and exhibiting artist. Acknowledgement of how modern and contemporary art in its analytical reductionism has created a new set of criteria for art experience. A quick look at figurative work being made today and what is being embraced as the zeitgeist versus what could be viewed as anachronistic and how to tell the difference. Examples of how these observations are driving the evolution of my own work."
David Molesky is an oil painter and writer based in Brooklyn, New York. He was born in Washington, D.C. and received his BA in Art Practice from University of California at Berkeley. Recently he was the artist residence at the Akureyri Art Museum and will have solo exhibitions this month at Deiglan (March 20-21) and Kaktus (March 27-28). Molesky's work is part of the permanent collection in museums across the United States, Europe, and Asia, including the Long Beach Art Museum and Iloilo Museum of Contemporary Art in the Philippines.