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Revision as of 20:01, 25 March 2014

  • Comment: No real independent reliable sources. Any mentions in newspapers? ~~ Sintaku Talk 20:11, 9 February 2014 (UTC)

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Gainor Roberts (born September 14, 1941) is an American artist known for still life and landscape paintings that explore color, form and symbolism. A classically trained artist in the realist tradition, Roberts combines impressionist brush techniques and intense color with attention to the distinctive—sometimes monumental—form of her objects and their placement in space. Roberts works in egg tempera, oil, pastel, watercolor and monotype.

In addition to teaching classes in drawing, painting and photography, Roberts has written monographs on design and painting techniques.[1] She is a well-known artist and advocate for the visual arts in Tampa Bay.[2][3][4][5]

Life

Born and raised in Philadelphia, PA, Roberts had an early interest in art that was not encouraged by her upper-middle-class Quaker family.[6] She was exposed to art due to her great-great-aunt, Ellen Wetherald Ahrens,[7] a well-known Victorian-era artist who had studied with Howard Pyle and Thomas Eakins[8]. While Roberts often skipped school to draw pictures at home, she had no formal training in art until age 18. Her family would not permit her to enter college as an art major. Instead she attended a summer program taught by the portrait and figure painter Robert Brackman, whose emphasis on classical technique and color was a defining influence.[9] Roberts studied with Brackman in the summers while attending Elmira College as an English major. After graduating from Elmira, Roberts studied painting at the Art Students’ League in NYC. Later she worked as a graphic artist.

In the mid 1970s, she became staff graphic artist at Mystic Seaport[10]. For almost a decade Roberts and her husband traveled around the country, living first on a 31-foot sailing sloop and then in an Airstream RV trailer. During this period, she had little opportunity for painting. In the late 1980s she returned to school in order to refresh her skills. Roberts studied at the National Academy of Design in NYC with Mary Beth McKenzie and James Childs[11], and at Lyme Academy of Fine Arts in Old Lyme, Connecticut with Deane Keller. She also took workshops with Aaron Shikler. In addition, Roberts studied sculpture at Lyme Academy with Laci de Gerenday.[12] In the 1990s, Roberts began creating works in monotype and moved to Westerly, Rhode Island, where she and another artist ran their own gallery. Cite error: A <ref> tag is missing the closing </ref> (see the help page).

Egg Tempera and Genesis Series

In 2003, Roberts began experimenting with the demanding medium of egg tempera. She was drawn to it because of the luminous color still seen in medieval and early Renaissance masterworks.[13] Roberts has written a monograph on the technique[14] and now teaches master classes in egg tempera.

The Genesis Series, Roberts’ best known series of egg tempera paintings, represent a high point of her use of color and form to layer meaning into her work. The small (typically 6” x 8”) paintings are studies of organic form, sacramentalized by the radiant egg tempera color. All show the ovary of a fruit or vegetable, opened and frozen in time. Roberts tenderly examines the plant flesh and focuses on the seeds, cradled and glistening with life.[15]

Feeling Series

Roberts has been working for over 20 years on her Feeling Series, twelve paintings that represent individual emotions.[16] Created in the tradition of great European still life studies that display a tableau of objects, sometimes intended to convey nature’s bounty, sometimes with religious or symbolic undertones, these paintings show an arrangement of objects within an intense, restricted color palette. Since our culture no longer has a shared language of symbols, the paintings are a challenge for contemporary viewers. They give clues to Roberts’ intellectual and sensory world, as traditional tropes of still life, like flowers and musical instruments, reappear in different paintings. Yet the meaning of each remains a mystery, to be understood only as part of the whole. The paintings convey the isolation of individual experience even as they attempt to transcend it by means of color, form and image.

References

  1. ^ www.gainor.biz/booklets_and_monographs./html
  2. ^ Karen Ring, "Carrollwood Cultural Center Exhibit Chronicles Tuskegee Airmen Experience," Tampa Bay Times, February 5, 2014, http://www.tampabay.com/things-to-do/visualarts/carrollwood-cultural-center-exhibit-chronicles-tuskegee-airmen-experience/2164256; accessed February 9, 2014
  3. ^ Evelyn Bless, "All Hail the Art!" Centerpieces 6, no 1, p. 1, 4-5 (http://www.carrollwoodcenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/2013-Winter-Centerpieces.pdf)
  4. ^ Camille C. Spencer, "Free Art Lecture Offered at Cultural Center," Carrollwood Patch, August 25, 2011, http://carrollwood.patch.com/groups/arts-and-entertainment/p/free-art-lecture-offered-at-cultural-center, accessed February 9, 2014
  5. ^ "Gainor Roberts Is December’s NTAL Artist Of The Month," New Tampa Neighborhood News, 16, no. 24, November 28, 2008, p. 38
  6. ^ Jeff Berlinicke, "Carrollwood Cultural Center Curator a Life-long Artist," Tampa Bay Times, April 9, 2013, http://tbo.com/carrollwood/carrollwood-cultural-center-curator-a-lifelong-artist-b82473199z1, accessed February 14, 2014
  7. ^ The permanent collection of the Philadelphia Museum of Art includes three Ahrens paintings; for thumbnails see http://www.philamuseum.org/collections/results.html?searchTxt=ellen+wetherald+ahrens&bSuggest=1&keySearch=+Search+&searchNameID=&searchClassID=&searchOrigin=&searchDeptID=&page=1; five Ahrens works are in Philadelphia’s Woodmere Museum of Art (http://woodmereartmuseum.org/).
  8. ^ Elizabeth Bettendorf, "A generous, lighted space to create," Tampa Bay Times, March 11, 2006, p. 1 and 7, http://www.sptimes.com/2006/03/11/news_pf/Pasco/A_generous__lighted_s.shtml, accessed February 14, 2014
  9. ^ Camille C. Spencer, "Artist's Corner: Gainor Roberts," Carrollwood Patch, January 24, 2013, http://carrollwood.patch.com/groups/arts-and-entertainment/p/artists-corner-gainor-roberts, accessed February 15, 2014
  10. ^ Bettendorf, p. 1
  11. ^ Americangallery.wordpress.com/category/childs-james/, accessed Jan. 3, 2014
  12. ^ “L. De Gerenday,” 'The Courant', June 19, 2001, articles.courant.com/2001-06-19/news/0106190448_1_new-york-art-world-fine-art-longtime-artist, accessed Jan. 3, 2014
  13. ^ Cheryl Bentley, “No Joking, This Artist is into Yolking,” The Tampa Tribune, June 14, 2005
  14. ^ Berlinicke
  15. ^ Evelyn Bless, “Story of a Picture,” Centerpieces, 2, no. 4, p. 3-4 (http://www.carrollwoodcenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/2009-Winter-Centerpieces.pdf)
  16. ^ “Art Club Welcomes Guest Artists to Annual Show,” SCC Observer News, 45, no. 2, January 31, 2002. 45, no. 2, p. 1. See also www.gainor.biz/feeling_series_booklet.pdf

General References

"Still-Life Painting in Northern Europe, 1600–1800," The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History, http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/nstl/hd_nstl.htm; accessed Nov. 10, 2013

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