ARTIST

David deBiasio was born in Jesolo (province of  Venice) on August 8 1973. At the age of 19, after attending the Istituto Magistrale, he transferred to Rome, where he began taking courses at the Fine Arts Accademy of Rome.

He graduated in 1998 presenting a thesis on Gustave Moreau, a copy of which is in the Museum of Gustave Moreau in Paris, and he realized several decorations, trompe l'oeil, mural paintings in private houses, cultural circles, hotels from Treviso to Rome.

In 2003 he transferred to New York city where he began to work as assistant for Mark Kostabi, and he began to study under  Nelson Shanks at the Art Students League.

"Through a constant study of the techniques used by the great masters of the past (Tiziano, Leonardo da Vinci, Caravaggio, Gustave Moreau), I have found the inspiration to achieve a certain expressive tension in my recent works.

"Fruit or objects, solemn in their ordinariness, are brushed by a grazing light revealing familiar shapes that speak to all of us by their very materiality.

"Against dark and light backgrounds, some objects stand out like silent guards immersed in a timeless space, such as the old chipped bricks that lend order to the composition, or simply the keys of my first New York apartment."