David Molesky
Painting | 2025
David Molesky (b. 1977, Washington, DC) is an oil painter whose work explores organic abstraction inspired by turbulent elements and figurative works inspired by mythology. He is currently painting a series where bananas serve as a metaphor for the human figure. By merging two long-standing art historical tropes—the banana and the monomyth—he examines masculinity through the lens of comedy and tragedy.
Molesky’s paintings are shown throughout the United States and Europe and are part of permanent collections at institutions such as the Long Beach Museum of Art and the Iloilo Museum of Contemporary Art in the Philippines. His work has been featured in The New York Times, The Washington Post, New American Painting, and American Arts Quarterly. He participated in artist residencies awarded by the Morris Graves Foundation (California), Fundacja Nakielska (Poland), and the Akureyri Art Museum (Iceland).
Size
12 x 9" - Unframed
Materials
Oil on linen
Authenticity
Hand signed by the artist
Depostion after Caravaggio
David Molesky
Painting | 2025
David Molesky (b. 1977, Washington, DC) is an oil painter whose work explores organic abstraction inspired by turbulent elements and figurative works inspired by mythology. He is currently painting a series where bananas serve as a metaphor for the human figure. By merging two long-standing art historical tropes—the banana and the monomyth—he examines masculinity through the lens of comedy and tragedy.
Molesky’s paintings are shown throughout the United States and Europe and are part of permanent collections at institutions such as the Long Beach Museum of Art and the Iloilo Museum of Contemporary Art in the Philippines. His work has been featured in The New York Times, The Washington Post, New American Painting, and American Arts Quarterly. He participated in artist residencies awarded by the Morris Graves Foundation (California), Fundacja Nakielska (Poland), and the Akureyri Art Museum (Iceland).
Size
12 x 9" - Unframed
Materials
Oil on linen
Authenticity
Hand signed by the artist
