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Ashes,<\/em> 2023, oil and collage on canvas, 63\u2033 x 112\u2033<\/p>\n\n\n\n

September 10 \u2013 October 19, 2024<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Opening reception: Tuesday, September 10, 5:00 \u2013 6:30 p.m.
Artist\u2019s Gallery Talk: 5:30 p.m.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Working with materials, thinking with materials, sensing their potential as you interact with them\u2014constructing and deconstructing\u2014to make an object with a physical presence that can provide a locus for emotional, intuitive responses that can engage the viewer in a deep, interior way.  This is the process and the potential of painting.   The physical becoming meta-physical.  Intimations of infinity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I love this quote from President Kennedy engraved in the wall at the Kennedy Center<\/em>, Washington, DC:  \u201cThe life of the arts . . . .  is close to the center of a nation\u2019s purpose\u2014and is a test of the quality of a nation\u2019s civilization.\u201d  It gives me hope and support as an artist in our contemporary world, a world in need of authenticity and beauty which art can provide.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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About the Artist<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

About half of Robert Stuart\u2019s time growing up was spent overseas in Africa, Asia, and the Pacific while his father worked for USAID and UNESCO.  Stuart was encouraged in art by his mother who attended The Art Students League, <\/em>and taught art, and also by a longtime family friend, Catalan artist Pierre Daura, who had been a member of \u201cCercle et Carr\u00e9,\u201d (Circle and Square), the avant-garde group in Paris that included artists such as Mondrian, Arp, and Kandinsky.  Four years at Boston University\u2019s School for the Arts<\/em> was a rigorous, traditional program with much figure drawing,  and where Philip Guston was a major influence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Following an MFA at James Madison University<\/em> Stuart launched a career as a painter of landscapes and still-lifes, confident painting \u201cbefore the motif,\u201d and found success in galleries.  An art historian friend once said that he was \u201can abstract painter who went outside.\u201d  Being selected for two exhibits at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts<\/em> were important early boosts for Stuart\u2019s career.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After ten years exhibiting in prominent galleries with his unique representational style, but with episodes of experimenting with abstraction, his responses to abstract paintings became so strong and his need for it so compelling that he could no longer deny it.  Discovering the painter Agnes Martin\u2019s paintings and writings was crucial. Finally, immediately after visiting Zen gardens in Japan, a vivid dream of a large, red, abstract painting was so potent that Stuart had to make the painting, and set out newly committed to pure abstraction.  Almost immediately, there were two major validations for the artist:  he was selected for the New Orleans Museum of Art Triennial<\/em>, and not long after, Stuart received an \u201cAcademy Award in Art\u201d from the American Academy of Arts and Letters<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stuart\u2019s home and studio are in Staunton, Virginia.  He is represented by Reynolds Gallery in Richmond, Virginia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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