Robert has been sculpting and involved in the creative aspects of the art world for many years. As President of Meyer Design Associates, he created award winning annual reports and corporate communications for Fortune 500 companies throughout the Northeast, Florida and Chicago. He was juried into the Silvermine Guild of Artists in 1992 and has devoted his creative energies exclusively to sculpture since 1998. He spent three months sculpting at Studio Sem in Pietrasanta, Italy, working in marble and terra cotta. Since returning from Italy, he has completed four commissions for Quinnipiac University and shown his sculpture in group and solo exhibitions in New York and Connecticut. His sculpture is in the collection of the Memorial Art Gallery in Rochester, New York and in corporate, institutional and private collections throughout the northeast. He received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the University of Colorado and a Master of Fine Arts degree from Rochester Insitute of Technology. He is a past Trustee of the Silvermine Arts Center in New Canaan, CT and a Founding Member of the Katherine Hepburn Cultural Arts Center in Old Saybrook, CT.
Collections
MuseumsMemorial Art Gallery, Rochester, NY
Corporate/InstitutionalAlegna Corporation, Shelton, CT
Gannett Co., Inc., Arlington, VA
McGregor Links Foundation, Falls Church, VA
Quinnipiac University, Hamden, CT
R. D. Scinto, Inc., Shelton, CT
Studio 80 + Sculpture Grounds, Old Lyme, CT
Commissions
2006 Quinnipiac University, Service Award
2004 Quinnipiac University, Service Award Plaque
2003 Quinnipiac University, President’s Medallion Case
1999 Quinnipiac University, Ceremonial Mace and Pedestal
Juried Professional Memberships
New England Sculptors Association
Silvermine Guild of Artists
New Canaan, CT
The Artists Collective of Westport
Westport, CT
The Sculptors Guild
New York City, NY
I am inspired by the energy created combining multiple forms in
different mediums with contrasting textures and colors. For me, every
medium has it’s own appeal. You never know what you will find when you
split open a piece of EPS Foam or what kind of texture will emerge when
you slice through it with a hot knife. There is a freedom and an element
of the unexpected in this medium. There is a richness in the color and
grain of wood. Plaster can yield an infinite number of textures. Nature
can produce wonderful colors and patterns in the patina of rusted steel.
The joy comes in creating pure forms that embrace these surprises and
combining them in unexpected ways.
Solo Exhibitions
2020
Space, Structures + Environment
Handwright Gallery, New Canaan, CT
2003
Greene Art Gallery, Guilford, CT
Enterprise Corporate Park, Shelton, CT
1998
Randall Tuttle Fine Arts, Woodbury, CT
1996
Silvermine Guild Arts Center, New Canaan, CT
1976
Memorial Art Gallery, Rochester, NY
Group Exhibitions
2024
Equinox: Passage from Dark to Light
New England Sculpture Association
Juror’s Choice Award
Art in the Barn
The Artists Collective of Westport
Westport Country Playhouse, Westport, CT
Mixmaster 2024
Mattatuck Museum,Waterbury, CT
2023
Mixmaster 2023
Mattatuck Museum, Waterbury, CT
2022
Connecticut Academy of Fine Arts 111th Annual Exhibition
Lyme Academy of Fine Arts, Old Lyme, CT
Mixmaster 2022
Mattatuck Museum, Waterbury, CT
2021
Connecticut Academy of Fine Arts 110th Annual Exhibition
Juror’s Award for Sculpture
Expanding Visions: Traditional and Beyond
Lyme Art Association, Old Lyme, CT
Juror’s Award for Best Abstract Art
2020
Silvermine Guild Artists Summer Salon
Silvermine Arts Center, New Canaan, CT
Summer Sculpture Showcase
The Sculpture Grounds, Old Lyme, CT
2019
Summer Sculpture Showcase
The Sculpture Grounds, New Canaan, CT
2008
The Sculpture Grounds, Old Lyme, CT
Greene Art Gallery, Guilford, CT
Silvermine Arts Center, New Canaan, CT
2005
Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, NY
Silvermine Arts Center, New Canaan, CT
2004
Greene Art Gallery, Guilford, CT
2003
Greene Art Gallery, Guilford, CT
2002
The City of Danvers, MA
Star Pin Gallery, Shelton, CT
2001
National Fall Open Exhibition
Southern Vermont Arts Center, Manchester, VT
Art of the Northeast
Silvermine Arts Center, New Canaan, CT
Chromaphobia
Silvermine Arts Center, New Canaan, CT
2000
Kimberly Greer Gallery, Northport, NY
Art for The Cure
New Britain Museum of American Art, New Britain, CT
1999
Kimberly Greer Gallery, Northport, NY
Art of the Northeast
Silvermine Arts Center, New Canaan, CT
1998
Randall Tuttle Fine Arts, Woodbury, CT
1997
Kohn Pedersen Fox Gallery, New York City, NY
Silvermine Arts Center, New Canaan, CT
1996 ?
Art of the Northeast?
Silvermine Arts Center, New Canaan, CT
1994 ?
Silvermine Arts Center, New Canaan, CT
1993 ?
Small Sculpture?
Silvermine Arts Center, New Canaan, CT
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