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 master techniques for many years. In his early work, Gersten was inspired by surrealism and the idea of painting dreamworlds or expressing the concepts of dreams and visions. “We live in the present, but we think in dreams,” Gersten is fond of saying. Geoffrey cites his artist career began while seeking a deeper truth in himself. He had an epiphany in his mid-twenties that synthesized his passion for painting with his interests in geometry and CAD design. 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 motifs found from 19th century photographs juxtaposed with an accompanied by text, design, or color determined entirely by feeling and intuition. This spontaneity and dynamism thrusts Gersten’s paintings beyond mere representation into a true expression of his artistry. With past exhibitions spanning the US as well as Taiwan, and Madrid, his work has been widely collected as his career continues to blossom. Geoffrey’s paintings can be seen in respected galleries in the US, and in prestigious collections and art fairs around the world. He has collaborated with Mark Parker (Nike CEO) as well as Warner Music. [My] early canvases were total chaos, but I loved painting so much, I just kept going. I pulled my hair out for 10 years, educating myself, learning over time. I didn’t know what I was doing, didn’t know good from bad, but I persevered.”- Geoffrey Gersten