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Blue Gallery August Exhibition:
Robert Striffolino Intimate Nature
Opening reception First Friday, August 6th, 2010 6-9 pm
exhibition runs through August 30th, 2010
Robert Striffolino, Waterscape #37, oil on canvas, 40" x 40"
"I was born in New York City in 1950 and raised in Valley Stream, New York. After receiving a degree in architecture from Ohio University in 1974 I practiced architecture as well as painted. I have lived and worked in Santa Fe, New Mexico since 1978 and have devoted my full time to painting since the mid 1980’s.
The affinity I have always felt toward Nature continues to fuel my creative drive. Painting continues to intrigue and impassion me providing new ways to stretch and grow. For this I am grateful. It has been a constant companion and certainly my major mode of expression throughout the years.
Literal subject matter has become less important, acting primarily as a vehicle for what I seek in painting. The real subject is the expression of emotion (aroused in me) and the spirit (of the subject). Exploring this through paint and surface in a formal context is what the painting is about. I believe a successfully executed painting must reach further, beyond the abstract or representational, into an intimate spirituality brought about by an individual way of seeing things. In that unique expression is something that relates to the “human experience” despite the passage of time. It is why one can look at a hundred year old painting and say “yes, I know this”. This has nothing to do with trends or commercialism and everything to do with Art."
Robert Striffolino
Represented by Blue Gallery since 2000, Robert Striffolino's work is found in private and corporate collections worldwide including; US West, Hollister, Inc., Ohio State University, Trammell Crow (Shaw Park Plaza, St. Louis, MO), American National Insurance Company, Oprah Winfrey (Harpo, Inc.) and Intercontinental Hotel at the Plaza, Kansas City, MO
also featuring...
Laura Schiff Bean
Laura Schiff Bean, We Live, As We Dream, acrylic on panel, 48" x 36"
Rich Bowman
solo exhibition
November 4th, 2010
Rich Bowman, Golden Start, oil on canvas, 52" x 52" fr.