Circulars art

Year: 2010 - present

Medium: Mixed media drawings on 300 lb Arches watercolor paper

Size: 66 x 30 in. (each)

Courtesy of the artist

The Promised Land

Robert Rivers

Part of the 2021 Florida Prize in Contemporary Art Exhibit

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Year: 2010 - present

Medium: Mixed media drawings on 300 lb Arches watercolor paper

Size: 66 x 30 in. (each)

Courtesy of the artist

About Robert Rivers

Entering a gallery exhibition of Robert Rivers’ prints and drawings is a little like stepping into a painting by Hieronymus Bosch. In a universe of infinite detail, strange people and fanciful beasts engage in a primal drama that is familiar but vaguely disturbing. His works are nearly all focused on the figure, human and animal, with a nearly obsessive attention to every detail of line and shading. Through Rivers’ pen and engraving needle, the head of a man or the muscular body of a lion is rendered as an intricate design of swirls and patterns. Many of his figures recur across these works, images worked and re-worked in drawings and plates, appearing in different poses or combinations as Rivers explores their symbolic possibilities.

Robert Rivers’ artwork has been exhibited in numerous venues around the world, including: Printmakers from Edinburgh of Art Summer School, Fundación Joan Miró, Mallorca, Spain; Seagate Gallery, Dundee, Scotland; Society of Scottish Artists: 94th Exhibition, Royal Scottish Academy Galleries, Edinburgh; Saints and Sinners, The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC; The Boston Printmakers Show, Massachusetts. Selected collections are housed in: The National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC; The National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh; The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC; Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, Alabama.

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