My first love was the imagery of Joan Miró, and I have been mining the rich vein between abstraction and representation ever since. Trying to distill visual experience down to words is difficult, but there are two approaches one may take: the visceral, instinctive, almost subconscious and primitive experience of the image; and, the more analytical evaluation of the formal characteristics of the work. These two are tightly intertwined, even symbiotic, but distinct in many ways. In terms of the visceral visual […]
Solo and Group Shows 2018 Big Ink II, Large Format Woodcuts, Bend Art Center, Bend, OR Faces in My Head, Paintings by Robert Sumner; Chehalem Cultural Center, Newberg, OR 2012 Robert Sumner and Cynthia Spencer, Guardino Gallery, Portland, OR 2010 Robert Sumner and Shannon Weber, Guardino Gallery, Portland, OR New Zealand Print Exchange Exhibit, Print Arts Northwest, Portland, OR PrintArts Northwest 10 Year Anniversary Traveling Exhibition 2009 New Members’ Show, Print Arts Northwest, Portland, OR 2006 Group Invitational, Crockett Art […]
