ABOUT
ROBERT ROTH
b. 1965 New York
Robert grew up in the seaside village of Cold Spring Harbor, NY. A graduate of Rhode Island School of Design, Robert approaches his work by inventing from nature. Within his landscapes, Robert sets out to evoke the feeling of inner calmness and solitude. “ I try to achieve that inherent emotion of vastness within nature and one’s self. Capturing those intangible atmospheric reflections of light, movement, and space that occur within our surroundings”. Growing up exploring the marshlands and estuaries along the eastern shores of Long Island was an everyday ritual in his life. Robert tries to bring that genuine spirit and energy into each of his works. Using the landscape a low horizontal composition as his “stage” he attempts to orchestrate the “lost and found” atmospheric relationships between sky and ground. Many of his paintings deal with the balance of abstraction, using a dramatic “push and pull” of cloud formations against a vast open space. These relationships of reflective light create the tension play between land, sea and sky. He describes his process; “Skies are constantly in motion, reflecting light differently throughout the day. It’s within these constraints and observations I try to evoke that open vastness of being at one with nature.
Robert has a wide range to inspiration from the turn of the century early British painters to the Abstract Expressionists, such as Jackson Pollock, Rothko, Diebenkorn, and Rauschenberg. His works are held in public and private collections, including The Ritz Carlton, American Express, The New Yorker, The New York Times, The Presidential Suite Grand Hyatt Kauai, Columbia and Northeastern University.
Robert has received numerous honors, including Medals from The Cleveland Museum of Art and New York’s Hecksher Museum. He spends much of his summer on the island of Martha’s Vineyard and resides and paints in his 1850’s barn studio in Northeast Ohio.