121 Roebling Street, Brooklyn NY 11211 tel: 917-650-3760
Gallery hours are 1:00- 6:00 pm Thursday - Sunday or by appointment.

	Lincoln Capla
	Dan Edwards	Dubbed "Shock Artist" by the New York Post, "prankish and frolicsome" by the New York Times, Daniel Edwards is the recipient of a 2005 Bartlebooth award from respected London based publication, The Art Newspaper, for his Ted Williams Memorial Display with Death Mask. The piece also won him the dubious honor of selection for Sports Illustrated's "This Week's Sign of The Apocalypse", as well as Sporting News calling for "the artist's head under a Guillotine."
	Chris Gwyn	Christopher Gwyn’s photography is a result of his life’s experiences trancended firsthand onto film. His work is a natural byproduct of his philosophy of life on the road. From his home in Brooklyn, he travels extensively to see new places with his camera seeking the messages of other people’s stories and his own transforming them into visual anecdotes.
	Margret Inga	I am predominantly concerned with creating an illusory type of cinematic narrative- one that follows an experience of isolation, loss of identity, and alienated labor in the face of contemporary anxiety and discarded utopian ideals- that follows the gradual loss of selfhood within an environment filled with the monotony of rules, repetition, and subordination. In the end, the images exist somewhere between realism & delusion, mixing filth and gentle surfaces, visually rejecting the structural principles at the heart of the concrete world in order to create a picture of a world half awake, half asleep, in between.
	David Kesting	I need to spend time drawing and painting everyday. Its important to me to express these ideas that I have, and although I can write about some of these things I find that the ideas usually want to develop through form and figure as opposed to anything I can get out literally. I do like to write letters and often my sketchbook is filled with letters and illustrations to friends and family, so its safe to say there is a lot of literature in my work. I am, however not a big fan of critical anaylisis by an artist regrading thier work. It seems to me that the trend of artist straying from their palettes towards thier typewriters is a front to painting and illustration in general. I think a successful painting or illustration communicates to my viewer the ideas thoughts and emotions that I had, and it must be able to do so by its own visual content.
	Martina Kubinyi	EDUCATION: Arts Students League, Pratt, BFA in illustration from the School of Visual Arts PIECE BRIEFING: Gwash.."Im only turned on when im off" Inspired by the "Earl King"...(who lured young woman and beautiful birds into his dark cave with his flute, to keep for his own plessures) Growing up i always felt sexual undercurrents in old school fairy tales and on the playground. Passive young woman being swept away by older goblin men, and are enslaved for sex, misery and guilt.
	Brian Leo	East Village Painter, Brian Leo, has been creating an ongoing series of paintings in a style best typified as Garage Pop Surrealism. The series has been exhibited as a deluge of up to 500 paintings . Garage refers to a grungy warehouse of stored poetic language addressing raw emotion. In Leo's work, mundane imagery resonates against solid backgrounds of vibrant color, evoking Pop Art commercialism. Cartoon-like, whimsical subject matter, referencing individual identity, pop culture and current events, are juxtaposed and re-contextualized to form surrealistic icons of disposal. The psychological tug of these paintings reveals the Surrealist underpinnings of Leo's endeavor.
	Ric Librizzi
	Travis Lindquist	Travis Lindquist was born in 1969 in Boston Mass. Growing up on Cape Cod he was washed in all the myths and contradictions of suburban life. After graduating high school, he went to the School of the Museum of Fine Arts and Tufts University in Boston. This is when he committed himself to the life of an artist. Lindquist is primarily a painter, but has branched out into other mediums including sculpture, video, photography, sound, collaberation, and digital animation. He spent ten years in Boston, showing in many of the venues there including the ICA, the Harbor Gallery at UMASS, the Museum of Urban Art and Culture, and the Boston Architecture Center.
	Brielle Maxwell	Using a variety of mediums, the images explore the attachment, interaction, and subconscious digestion that happens as we live our lives. My work stems from an obsession with and simultaneous withdrawal from material culture. By illustrating varying degrees of compliance with this culture both positive and negative dialog begins to generate. The visual content exploits archetypes as material culture exploits desires. This series explores the connotations of refinement in our culture that result in a loss of natural traits and traditions.
	Morgan Russell	What is happening in my work now is a type of transmutation of an objective scene into something else, not quite the way it was before and not making the same kind of sense that it had before.
	Jennifer Sanchez	I am concerned with creating new spaces that are generated from understanding thought, exploration and process. To illustrate a process that has no single permanent power and that creates spaces of simultaneity and transience. Recently I have been investigating ideas that challenge the way we perceive, conceive and live in space. What interests me most is the concept that space has no definitive existence yet enables everything else to exist. My paintings withdraw from the objects in space and bring an awareness to space itself.
	Antony Zito	The New York Post has called Zito's portrait paintings "sensuous" and his renderings of people on materials other than canvas have prompted The Village Voice to refer to him as "a master of the found object". A dedicated resident of the Lower East Side, he is credited with founding the Every Last Sunday art loop, a walking tour that features up to 30 independent art studios and galleries each month. His paintings have been seen in The Sundance Film Festival, Milk Studios, The National Arts Club, The American Museum of Natural History, P.S. 122, Chelsea Market Arts Collective, Angel Orensanz Foundation and Anthology Film Archives, to name a few. In May 2004, Zito's portrait of Lee Marvin was featured along side The White Stripes in the United Artists film, "Coffee and Cigarettes", directed by Jim Jarmusch, and he has contributed 2 pieces to the director's most recent movie, "Broken Flowers". His tribute to the Mona Lisa - via Duchamp - was shown at Deitch Projects in Soho and featured in the Fall Arts Issue of BlackBook magazine in 2004 . His illustrations have been published in The New York Press and public murals by Zito include the exterior walls of Lombardi's Pizza and The Spring Lounge in Little Italy. After a recent trip through Spain and Italy, where several of his new pieces have been collected, an extensive interview with the artist was published in the magazine, Ortodoncia, out of Barcelona.

Gallery Statement:

Founded in October of 2003 by artists David Kesting and Lincoln Capla, Capla Kesting Fine Art has become synonymous with the exposure of both emerging and mid career artists. Created primarily as a venue to expose their work, and that of their talented group of friends CKFA has grown to new heights as the stable of artists has steadily grown. In the first year alone CKFA hosted an unprecedented 11 exhibitions.

During our two year tenure the gallery has become closely affiliated with the Williamsburg community. In 2004 and 2005 we donated works, from our permanent collection, to the Brooklyn gallery publication WAGMAG, assiting in thier attainment of not for profit status. In the fall of 2005 CKFA sponsored former intern Aaron Hitchcock for a position as Managerial Assistant for the Williamsburg Gallery Association. His stewardship has proven invaluable for the development of After Hours, a Williamsburg gallery walk for international visitors attending the Armory Show.

In April 2005 CKFA began to host weekly figure drawing sessions. This gave local artists a place to meet, discuss and hone their craft. Culminating last November as, How I Spent my Summer Vacation, a group exhibition featuring the work of the weekly participants.

In 2006 CKFA will produce six solo and one group exhibition. Highlighting works from previous artists such as, Brian Leo in the Fall, and introducing Travis Lindquist in the spring. We will continue our figure drawing sessions and hope to expand our art education program to include printmaking for artists.

"We're not here making a statement. We're just showing art we think deserves to be shown. The goal and whole idea of the place is to help bring artists that we respect and enjoy to the attention of the public."