Gersten is a self-taught surrealist artist based out of Tempe, Arizona. He started painting when he was 21 years old and paints his works using oil paints mixed with natural resin. His artwork is quirky featuring humanoid machines resembling images of robots from the 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s.
“Surrealism Meets Tech” is one way to describe Gersten’s paintings; “alternate retro-universe homages to Las Vegas and the classic robots” is another. Gertsen’s robots have a naive “mechanicality;” a real innocents like the toy and cartoon characters they resemble. They are people and essentially children.
It wasn’t until 2007 that he sat before a sheet of paper and began to arrange meaningful strokes upon it. “I became so hooked, like nothing I had ever experienced,” said Gersten. “This was it! This was really, really it.” And he knew from the start that he was going to be a surrealist.
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