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Artwork details
- Medium : Oil on Wood
- Other details : Artwork on supported wooden frame. Ready to hang. Framing on request.
- Dimensions : 48x48in
About this artwork
This piece explores desire. One of the ideas he portrays in his work is how people inside the pool and out each have a distorted view of each other.
David Jester
United States
Credentials
- Works on commission
« There in the painting was the pool I felt I belonged to: the pool of gay men, portrayed and honored, out in the open, not hidden or something to be ashamed of. »
David Jester is an exciting American painter who has exhibited his work in the US and Netherlands. His work centers around snapshots of the gay community as he has experienced it; themes include masculinity, discrimination, submission, love and joy. The distinctive painted pools act as metaphors for the pool of humanity, particularly within the community, and the characters that appear in the water represent lived and recognizable behaviors. Particularly focusing on the impact of online interactions between gay men, Jester ultimately asks questions about identity and belonging within the family he has chosen as his own.