Robert Stuart
Torn Lines

Reynolds Gallery, Richmond, VA
Friday, November 4th – Dec. 23rd
Opening Reception
7pm–9pm, Nov. 4th

These abstract paintings have evolved over the past ten years. They are a distillation of light, color, and surface, and follow a dozen years of representational painting "before the motif", - outdoors from the landscape and, in the studio, from still life set-ups.

Movement toward the essential has always been a major concern in my paintings. An art historian friend once told me that my (earlier) landscape paintings looked as if they were done by an abstract painter who went outside.

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