There will be an exciting new show at the Talbot County Visual Arts Center opening the 3rd of August entitled “Bernini, West Coast, & Redemption,” featuring artist Rob Brownlee-Tomasso. This solo show will feature recent works from three different series of Rob’s mixed media paintings on canvas. The opening reception will on Friday, August 3rd, from 5 – 7pm. This display will hang at the Visual Arts Center Gallery in Talbot Town Shopping Center through the 31st of August.
The Redemption series depicts the steps along the personal path to redemption, and are textured with earth from different places in America. The pieces from the West Coast series are paintings of places in California and Oregon, and are textured with soil taken from the sites that they depict. The Bernini series was inspired by the artist’s visit to the Borghese Gallery in Rome, depicting Gian Lorenzo Bernini’s sculptures and textured with Italian soil.
Rob Brownlee-Tomasso takes his inspiration from architecture, history and nature, as well as depicting highly conceptual characters. He creates texture studies in mixed media, and often they are on irregularly shaped canvases, and sometimes as multiple canvas installations. The acrylic medium, or gesso, is applied with a mixture of sand, earth and/or other materials to achieve a coarse surface. The main goals of his artistic expression are to find creative and dramatic subject matter that can work in conjunction with these richly textured surfaces; and to complete simple compositions that are contrasted with these complex textures. The subject matter is generally a loose interpretation of a specific concept, using simple palettes, which are often earth tones.
Rob Brownlee-Tomasso has been an artist all of his life, earning a degree in advertising design and building parallel careers in fine art and graphic design. “This allows for the creation of fine art with no compromise, in pursuit of art that is pure.” Rob has participated in group and solo exhibitions in Maryland and Virginia; and his work resides in several private collections. Rob’s paintings can be viewed online at www.rbtomasso.com.
For more information or questions regarding this workshop please call the Talbot County Visual Arts Center 410-822-0966 or visit our website www.Talbot-art-center.org. You may also call Jacqueline Pfaff Pratt, 443-385-0411. Programs and shows are sponsored or funded in part by the Talbot County Arts Council and the Maryland State Arts Council.
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