Faces & Figures | St. Augustine Art Association

I’m pleased to have two works included in Faces & Figures, a 2026 juried exhibition at the St. Augustine Art Association. The show brings together a wide range of approaches to the human form, and I’m glad to see these pieces hold their own within that conversation. The selected works, Holding the Center and Unapologetic, […]
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Blurred Lines Between Reality and Imagination

Reprinted from First Coast Senior Living, October 6, 2025 St. Augustine-based artist John Gerstner is no stranger to reinvention. With a career that spans journalism, photo journalism, video production, and multimedia storytelling, Gerstner has lived at the crossroads of communication and creativity. A former magazine editor and award-winning book author, Gerstner is best known in […]
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Why People Work

This article was published in the John Deere Journal, 1974. Social scientists say we work not just for money but for a whole range of other human needs and satisfactions. Benjamin Franklin was a great lover of work. Pinching time as if it were pennies he labored long hours through most of his 84 years–earning […]
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