JOHN PAUL KESLING                                             b. 1980
2012 2010-2011 Installation Performance/video Archive
Biography


After living in Savannah, GA where he received an MFA in painting, Kesling has relocated to Brooklyn, NY. He has no wife and no children. When he owns a dog, he will consider himself grown.


Statement

Invention, collection, ownership, war, religion, sports, language, music, and art-making. All of these things seem to make humans more than what they really are. As fancy animals, we've built the Pyramids, amassed 234 Jose Cansecos, mastered the bassoon and romanticized the Hudson all to impress a girl or boy.


"The New York buildings
Filled with their women & men
make the concrete soft"