Robert Stark

Artist Statement

Robert Stark has had solo exhibits at the Corcoran Gallery of Art, the Philips Collection, and in museums in Nashville, Augusta Georgia and Dallas Pennsylvania, among others. His work has traveled with the U.S. State Department to 140 world capitals. Stark’s connection to art was sparked as a child by his grandmother, a decorative painter. His formal training was in high school. Always renewing his visual perception, Stark looks at art every day. Early on he was influenced by the work of Hans Hofmann. Like Picasso, he has re-invented himself many times, from photography to landscape painting, an example which we show here at the Lodge. After returning from a visit to Hong Kong in 1985, Stark began to focus on abstract art that is, however, still rooted in landscape painting. Within that genre the artist continued to explore form, line and color, creating an astonishing body of diverse work. His work draws us in and out with infinite complexity. While recent work reveals horizons with elements of sky, rivers, earth, his latest work is a joyful dynamic of vibrant squares and rectangles, (as the above example) a series that seem to defy space, reverberating beyond the canvas. Stark says: “Daily life relies on intuition, conflict, courage, mistakes, surprises, a letting go of beauty, a surrender to chaos, silence, solitude. Failures inform more than success.” The artist, born in 1939, lives and works in his Susquehanna Studio, in Union Dale, Pennsylvania. He and his artist wife spend winters in Albuquerque, New Mexico. 

3 Robert Stark IMAGES for his artist page: (title info above the image) Please put them in this order, with Blue Arc in the middle. Thanks. Or if you have time for a tutorial one of these nights it’d be great…..