Miami based artist David Zalben was born in Brooklyn, New York, where after the age of 4 moved from city to city often, including having lived a few years in Brazil. David was always infatuated with photography, by the age of 9 he took pictures constantly, eventually working with school newspapers and winning awards at a young age. He began working in advertising photography where he established himself by engineering new approaches and innovative techniques such as the ‘selective focus’ technique. After working as a photographer, he went through a period of transformation and started to paint, which later included bending wire into sculpture.

“It’s a little difficult to speak concisely about what my art is about because it’s a whirlwind of ideas that have bounce from one medium to another, an gleaning ideas from my life’s experiences. I try to invoke something nostalgic and novel, or whimsical and unexpected which I see comes from margining all those things and a desire to display my skill and vision.”