2024 Festival Artist: David Genest
Artist Statement
My innate desire to paint portraits was informed by 20 years of work in Anatomic Pathology. I investigate and comment on human emotion and beauty through my paintings. I recently completed a portrait series that depicts human moments in the domestic lives of contemporary LGBTQ parents with their children My most recent works are portraits of men that depict the imagery I see when reading Walt Whitman's poems that celebrate the beauty of men. By experimenting with mixed media, I aim to dissect human emotion and expose internal beauty in a way that goes beyond photographic imagery.
Education
- Art Student League of New York (2021 - Present)
- The Studios of Key West, Key West, FL (2012 - 2020)
- Fine Arts Work Center, Provincetown, MA (2008 - 2014)
- Provincetown Artist Association and Museum, Provincetown, MA (2008 - 2014)
- School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (1998 - 2003)
Exhibition History
- 2022 New York Artist Equity (NYAE) Annual Member's Invitational Exhibit, NYAE Association's Equity Gallery, NY, NY, December 2022 - January 2023
- Solo exhibit, "LGBTQ Parents and their Children" Prince Street Project Space, New York, NY, May 2021 (Cancelled/postponed due to Covid)
- Solo exhibit, "Legalized Love", The Studios of Key West, FL, March 2020
- Group exhibit with three other artists, "Four Views", The Studios of Key West, FL, March 2018
- Group juried exhibit, The Studios of Key West, FL, 2018
- Group exhibit sponsored by the Florida Keys Council of the Arts, Gato Building, Key West, FL, January 2016
- Juried exhibits in 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, and 2022, The Bascom: A Center for the Visual Arts, Highlands, NC
- Juried exhibits in 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011 and 2012, Provincetown Artist Association and Museum, Provincetown, MA
- Solo exhibit, "Urban Landscapes", Starbucks, Back Bay, Boston, MA, 2007
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