ARTIST’S NOTE
Most of the works in this collection are oil paint on canvas, and despite contemporary and timely subject matter, are created in the most traditional application of this medium. The double-primed linen canvas is affixed to the wooden stretcher bars with tacks, not staples. The paints vary little from the pigments used in antiquity, and the slow process of laborious brush work, layer upon layer, has not been superseded by air brush or any photographic procedure — and, by no means is this adherence to ancient standards a smoke screen to don the cloak of a cheese dip Rembrandt. Conventional classic painting technique has much more merit than a euphemism for a pretentious promotional charade.
I hope you find these paintings as prodigious and unique as the influences and experiences that brought about my creation of these works.
Photo proofs for the book Views from a Tortured Libido (Last Gasp, 1993).
Confluence Between Corsairs 30" x 36", oil on canvas, 2006
290 ROBT. WILLIAMS
The Persuasion of Right Angles 66" x 72", oil on canvas, 2007
Sport of Sight
323
American Cognizance 30" x 36", oil on canvas, 2018
Queen Califia, Namesake of California 36" x 30", oil on canvas, 2019
350 ROBT. WILLIAMS
351 ELOQUENCE REDEFINED
The Rapacious Wheel
8' tall, fiberglass, steel, and auto paint, 2012