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detail of a painting
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 David Kessler [American, b.1950] is an extraordinary
painter who has created a unique art form that holds a viewers attention by accentuating
the paradox of the flat painted surface with the visual illusion of depth and space.
Using a perfected technique in the photo-realist tradition developed
over the past twenty-five years, the artist has created a series of spectacular
waterscape paintings that incorporate realistic imagery painted over a surface of
abraded and polished aluminum. This combination of hybrid elements forces
the viewer to shift their perception to accommodate the incongruity of light being
reflected from the metal surface, while at the same time being absorbed by the painted
areas. This reinforces the strange visual perplexity of the paintings that
are at the same time realistic and holographic.
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