Greene Naftali
Artist Talk | Andy Robert
Andy Robert: Tuesday Night Lecture Series
Boston University College of Fine Arts
Broadcast via Zoom
September 22, 7:30 PM EST
Hosted by the MFA programs in Painting, Sculpture, and Graphic Design at Boston University, the Tuesday Night Lecture Series brings practicing artists and curators to Boston University to present their work. The series is an integral component of the MFA programs in Painting, Sculpture, and Graphic Design which provide two years of intensive studio practice and artistic community in the heart of Boston University’s urban campus. In addition to a public lecture on their work, visiting artists meet with students for individual and group critiques as well as hands-on workshops.
Andy Robert is a painter who balances abstraction with recognizable imagery, and enjoys the experimentation and tinkering that comes with painting pictures. His work relies on the idea that images are to be bent and folded, taken apart and put back together again; a belief that art is a philosophical means to look at and examine things—to question, test ideas, and engage with the world. And that in painting a picture something is being taken apart to put back together; there is an inherent risk in breaking it. And as a Haitian-American immigrant and painter, Robert views the world critically as a contradiction of mass-communication and increased voicelessness. Robert lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. Significant group shows and solo exhibitions include Hannah Hoffman Gallery, Los Angeles (2017); the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Chicago (2020); Hammer Museum, University of California, Los Angeles (2019); Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, Arkansas (2018); and The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York (2016).
Recent grants, awards, and residencies include the Pollock-Krasner Foundation Artist Grant, New York (2020); MacDowell Colony Fellowship, Peterborough, New Hampshire (2020); Foundation for Contemporary Arts Roy Lichtenstein Award, New York (2019); The Studio Museum Harlem Artist-in-Residence, New York (2016–2017); Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Residency, Skowhegan, Maine (2016); and the Whitney Independent Study Program, New York (2015).
His work is included in the permanent collection of the Astrup Fearnley Museet, Oslo; Blanton Museum of Art, University of Texas, Austin, Texas; Hammer Museum, University of California, Los Angeles; The Studio Museum of Harlem, New York; and the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, Chicago.
For more information, please visit Boston University's website; to register for the Zoom lecture, please click here.