Robert Glick
USA (United States)
479-363-6111
www.robertglickart.com
Kunstart: Malerei
Stil: Gegenständlich
Statement:
In 2001, while still working in the corporate arena, a gallery owner in Houston became interested in Robert’s poetry and offered to sell it if he could find a way to display it. Faced with this challenge, Robert received some technical advice and started experimenting; he soon discovered ways in which language could be fused with composition to display a higher form of expression, and this kept him going until he developed sufficient skill to surrender to the call of art.
Touched with a wry sense of humor, fragments of quizzical, sensual verse can sometimes be found scrawled graffiti-style across the page, or deeply embedded within layers of color. By combining language and form, Robert learned to juxtapose the instinctual and rational, the raw and refined, the abstract and tangible, which led to a disposition that impacted his later work. Using acrylics and oils, sometimes combined with resin, plaster, graphite, paper and even flame, Robert now crafts conceptual and figurative abstracts primarily inspired by the changing face of nature and the human condition.
Often focused on creation, some paintings evoke images of God, religion, evolution and the origins of man. Although called spiritual, Robert does not see his art that way – he tends to concentrate on events that occur within layers upon layers of interdependent systems and processes, creating multiple nodes of commonality, and employs material, technique and vision to convey such commonalities in ways to which the viewer can relate and possibly be inspired. The more encompassing the subject matter, the more challenging the commonalities are to portray, until finally artistic language breaks down and art becomes as abstract as the concept itself. Somewhere between these material and immaterial worlds Robert’s art stands out.
Vita / Lebenslauf:
Robert Glick
Born: Berkeley, CA; November 29, 1956
Education: Bachelor of Science, Santa Clara University, 1979
Employment:
Full time studio artist: 2006 – Present
Part Time studio artist: 2001-2005
Other Employment (1985-2005): Oil maritime industry.
Representation:
Amsterdam Whitney Gallery, Manhattan, www.amsterdamwhitneygallery.com
Jadite Gallery, Manhattan, www.jadite.com
Four Square Fine Art, Fayetteville, AR
Self-represented through www.robertglickart.com
Selected Solo Exhibitions and Events
Jadite Gallery, 413 West 50th Street, New York, N.Y. 10019, February 3 – 28, 2009
Julie Wait Designs Gallery, www.juliewaitdesigns.com, November 7 – December 29, 2008
Fayetteville Public Library lecture and display, August 23 – October 5, 2008
Honorarium - Anne Kittrell Gallery, University of Arkansas, June 24 - August 21, 2008
Lecture & demonstration on abstract art – Artists of NW Arkansas, Springdale, AR, June 19, 2008
Selected Group Exhibitions
Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Eureka Springs, AR, January 22, 2008
Selected Publications and Interviews
Radio interview by Kyle Kellams, National Public Radio July 8, 2008
http://www.publicbroadcasting.net/kuaf/news.newsmain?action=article&ARTICLE_ID=1335458
Article by Sara Sullivan of The Morning News, June 27, 2008: http://www.nwaonline.net/articles/2008/06/27/weekend/062708wkdlookhere.txt
Patriot’s Herald, “Eureka Builds Bridges – Partnership forged with Bentonville’s Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, January 24, 2008.
Major bodies of Work
“Anthropology of God” Suite, six panels inspired by original poem of the same name
“Charred” Series, flammable media on paper
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Malerei
Ölmalerei
100 x 75 x 2 cm
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