Solo and Group Shows 2024 Expressions West, Coos Art Museum, Coos Bay, OR 2024 International Juried Exhibition, The Center for Contemporary Art, Bedminster, NJ, Hunter O’Hanian, Juror 2023 Boston Printmakers 2023 North American Print Biennial, Elizabeth M Rudy, Weyerhaeuser Curator of Prints at Harvard Art Museums, Juror Abstract is Abstract, HMVC Gallery, New York What a Relief!, Cannon Gallery of Art, Western Oregon University, Monmouth, OR 2018 Faces in My Head, Paintings by Robert Sumner; Chehalem Cultural Center, Newberg, OR Big Ink […]
Artist’s Statement I have always been taken by images that traverse the spectrum between representation and purely non-objective work—Miró, Guston, Dubuffet, Gorky, Marden. These were some of the heroes of my youth. As I tried to make sense of the apparent demise of modernism concurrent with the cacophonous rise of postmodernism, all the while sitting outside formal academic artistic training, I read beyond the monthly art magazines —Michael Fried, Rosalind Krauss, Thomas McEvilley among others. But the writings that most […]