On Narrative: Moving Forward, in Retrospect
January 29–March 2, 2018
Reception Thursday, February 15 at 5:30 pm
Artist talk at 6:00 pm
About the Artist
Robert Stevenson is a California-based artist who has taught Studio Art and Art History at Modesto Junior College for the last sixteen years. He received his Master of Fine Arts from the San Francisco Art Institute, a Master of Arts in Humanities with an emphasis in Art History from California State University at Dominguez Hills, and a Bachelor of Arts in Art Practice and Art History from the University of California at Berkeley. His work has been shown throughout the United States as well as in South America and Europe. His works can be found in public collections including the Morrison Library in Berkeley, CA, McNeese University in Lake Charles, LA, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, NY. Robert has also worked as a printer or as master printer with such noteworthy artists as Peter Voulkos, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, and Terry Allen. Recent scholarly awards include National Endowment for the Humanities Institute Fellowships to study South Asian culture in New Delhi, India; to Study Islam in Asia at the East-West Center in Honolulu, Hawaii; and a grant from the Korea Society to study Korean culture at the Academy for Korean Studies in Seoul, South Korea.
Artist Statement
This exhibition comprises seven bodies of work that explore the idea of the role of narration through static, printed images. These bodies of work take narrative strategies in several different directions, including animation, hand-made book forms, paper structures, non-traditional hanging techniques, and a scroll that is seen in the round. Over one thousand five hundred individual images will be included, the majority of which are etchings made over a two-decade span
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