Headwaters
posted by Robert Stark at 10:15 AM
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Wednesday, February 07, 2007
Thursday, April 20, 2006
Bonnafont
Bonnafont
Oil on linen, 30 x 39"
Hermosa Studio, Albuquerque
by appointment, 570.972.2662 (my cell & Skype)
hermosastudio@gmail.com
posted by Robert Stark at 10:48 AM
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Jemez after John Marin 2006
Spanish Queen 2006oil on panel, 24 x 30"
posted by Robert Stark at 10:41 AM
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Jemez Canyon 2006
Jemez Canyon 200530 x 50", oil on linen
posted by Robert Stark at 10:08 AM
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Sunday, March 26, 2006
Tuesday, March 21, 2006
Friday, March 03, 2006
Jamez
Jemezoil on panel, 24 x 32"
Collection of Bill and Barbara Carson
Collection of Bill and Barbara Carson
posted by Robert Stark at 5:15 PM
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Thursday, March 02, 2006
Wednesday, February 01, 2006
la Tierra 2005
la Tierra 2005, 64 x 96"
la Tierra 2005
oil on linen, 64 x 96", diptych
The colors on computer screens are a little unrealistic to say the least, however it is a start.
Hermosa Studio, Albuquerque, by appointment, 570.972.2662 (my cell & Skype)
hermosastudio@gmail.com
la Tierra 2005
oil on linen, 64 x 96", diptych
The colors on computer screens are a little unrealistic to say the least, however it is a start.
Hermosa Studio, Albuquerque, by appointment, 570.972.2662 (my cell & Skype)
hermosastudio@gmail.com
posted by Robert Stark at 11:17 AM
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Tuesday, January 31, 2006
Sandia 2006
Collection of Bill and Barbara Carson, Ft. Collins CO
Collection of Bill and Barbara Carson, Ft. Collins CO
posted by Robert Stark at 3:38 PM
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Sunday, January 22, 2006
Jemez Spring NM
The Bodhi Manda Zen Center where I have stayed while painting in the Jemez Mountains. When the paintings were too wet to move, they were left to dry in one of the guest rooms.
posted by Robert Stark at 12:05 PM
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Spanish Queen @ Jemez
The "Spanish Queen" was the name of the area in the US Park Service where I painted. It is also a favorite area for flying fishing for trout.
posted by Robert Stark at 10:59 AM
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Tuesday, January 03, 2006
Winter 2006
Last year I exhibited in November at the Bonnafont Gallery on Greenwich Street in San Francisco. I also participated in two exhibitions in the Adirondacks during the summer.
In early summer of 2006 furniture maker Michael Swanson and I will exhibit in a joint show at the Art Mission in Binghamton NY. Large paintings are on exhibition at the New Federal Courthouse in Scranton and in ArtWorks at the Philadelphia Museum of Art in Pennsylvania.
Ten years after abandoning formal landscape painting to explore the more direct act of freely applying paint to a surface without a representational motive, I have developed a new vocabulary; light and dark, warm and cool, making marks, brush-strokes like heart-rhythms.
Every day is a test of each painting's ability to stand on its own. Each painting is subject to being changed, to being reworked or scraped and repainted as long as it remains in the studio.
Where I used to attempt to 'make a picture,' now my concerns are the energy of light, the mass of space, the emotions of shadows. I want the painting to meet the viewer somewhere in the middle, where the viewer brings his own experiences to bear in understanding and feeling what he is seeing. I want my paintings to achieve the complexity and density of poetry or of a symphony, to build suggestive layers, implicit felt meaning, not merely to be bit of colors to seduce the eye. I want my paintings to be accessible to children as well as adults, and to be so simply and directly painted that it shows the act of painting for the joy and excitement of it.
Proof is in the viewing.
My address here is: hermosastudio@gmail.com
In early summer of 2006 furniture maker Michael Swanson and I will exhibit in a joint show at the Art Mission in Binghamton NY. Large paintings are on exhibition at the New Federal Courthouse in Scranton and in ArtWorks at the Philadelphia Museum of Art in Pennsylvania.
Ten years after abandoning formal landscape painting to explore the more direct act of freely applying paint to a surface without a representational motive, I have developed a new vocabulary; light and dark, warm and cool, making marks, brush-strokes like heart-rhythms.
Every day is a test of each painting's ability to stand on its own. Each painting is subject to being changed, to being reworked or scraped and repainted as long as it remains in the studio.
Where I used to attempt to 'make a picture,' now my concerns are the energy of light, the mass of space, the emotions of shadows. I want the painting to meet the viewer somewhere in the middle, where the viewer brings his own experiences to bear in understanding and feeling what he is seeing. I want my paintings to achieve the complexity and density of poetry or of a symphony, to build suggestive layers, implicit felt meaning, not merely to be bit of colors to seduce the eye. I want my paintings to be accessible to children as well as adults, and to be so simply and directly painted that it shows the act of painting for the joy and excitement of it.
Proof is in the viewing.
My address here is: hermosastudio@gmail.com
posted by Robert Stark at 2:43 PM
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Monday, September 26, 2005
Friday, April 01, 2005
Hermosa 2005 
Hermosa 2005
Private Collection, Washington DC
Hermosa 2005
Private Collection, Washington DC
posted by Robert Stark at 12:09 PM
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Thursday, March 31, 2005
About Me
- Name: Robert Stark
- Location: Albuquerque, NM
I first painted the New Mexico landscape in Taos and Santa Fe in the mid 50's, during summer break, while working at the Bishop's Lodge near Santa Fe. Years later I began painting in a studio in Albuquerque in 2004. I work both in the studio and in the open air, small paintings are studies for the large studio paintings. Painting from life captures an essence of place differently than a photographs, which for me, have always been a language of black and white. Painting from life involves working while the light is changing, and resolving and relating the changes in the landscape during the day. My painting in the past 3 years have been influenced both by scale and the New Mexico palette.
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- Jemez Canyon 2006
- Madrid Road
- First of Spring 2006
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