David Gerstein makes work that refuses to be intimidating, and has done so with enough conviction that the art world eventually took that seriously. His subject is daily life: cyclists, butterflies, musicians, urban crowds, treated as worthy of large-scale, technically demanding sculpture.
Each piece is laser-cut from steel or aluminium, then hand-painted in multiple layered colours before being assembled into multi-plane compositions that generate depth and movement without illusion. The work reads differently at every distance: graphic from across a room, surprisingly intricate up close.
Gerstein studied at the Bezalel Academy in Jerusalem, the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris, the Art Students League in New York, and St Martin's School of Art in London.
He has received nearly fifty public commissions in Israel alone, with major installations in Singapore, New York, London, Seoul, and Bangkok. His collectors include Lance Armstrong.
