Lisa Sette Gallery

David Kroll’s paintings are realist in representation and symbolist in intent, drawing influence from both the genre of the tabletop still-life as practiced by the Dutch masters and the romantic notion of the landscape as expressed by the Hudson River School. He acknowledges the history of these forms of painting and expands their concerns into a contemporary dialog between the cyclical processes of time, nature, and humankind. In doing so, his seductive and mimetic scenes balance fragility and change, offering the viewer a site to contemplate temptation and mortality.