"David Carrino is an artist whose work deals with identity, with language, with attention to both the world and to the gestures that mark and define it. In this use of the word, "gesture" refers not to the grand actions of a Jackson pollock, but to more quotidian ones- the way a woman habitually holds her body, or the way handwriting becomes as recognizable, or invisible, as a face we see every day. Handwriting is a revealing example, for it lies at the center of this work, representing one gesture that gives the world its voice, its 'body.'"
-Nick Flynn
An alphabet, Almost
Catalogue essay, 2000
