Geoffrey Gersten Biography

Geoffrey Gersten (b. 1986) is an internationally represented painter based in Scottsdale, Arizona. After early success as a CAD designer for Honeywell and Boeing, he began painting professionally in 2007. A self-taught artist, he learned to paint from privately studying old mastertechniquesfor many years.In his early work, Gersten wasinspired by surrealism and the idea of painting Dream worlds or expressing the concepts of dreams and visions. “We live in the present, but we think in dreams,” he isfond ofsaying.

Always aware of working beneath the “great host of witnesses(the old masters),” Geoffrey’s signature style developed into a confluence of abstract expressionism and photorealism. His most recent canvases draw directly from images, people, and motifsfrom 19th century photographs juxtaposed on any text, design, and color determined entirely by feeling. This spontaneity isthe dynamic factorthatthrusts a painting beyondmere representation,solidly into a truly expressive work of art.