Fast Facts Artist: Robert Glisson
Location: Delavan Center, 509 West Fayette Street, Syracuse, NY Email: rglisson13@hotmail.com outfieldoils@gmail.com Gallery Representation: Alden Gallery Provincetown, NY Exhibit A Corning, NY Art Dialogue Buffalo, NY Novado Gallery Jersey City, NJ
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Journey into a Landscape
I grew up in Syracuse in a large family of sev-
As an artist, I have done commissioned portraits,
loved to draw and paint. I spent many hours
Syracuse Chiefs, Stamford Science and Nature
copying the comic strips from the newspaper
Museum, Prometheus Book Publishers, and others.
en boys. We all had some artistic talent and
landscape paintings, and illustration work for the
and the comics I bought from the drug store. The competition to get Mom to hang one of my drawings on to the refrigerator was intense. It was like trying to get into a gallery! outfieldoils.com
I decided long ago that I wanted to be an artist and studied art at SUNY Cortland and Syracuse University. As you can imagine, it is very difficult to make a living as an artist and I have had many jobs over the years as I continue to pursue my art…. I even paint houses.
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