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Rob achieves his unusual surface by using medium in between each layer of paint. He uses many layers and a lot of glazes to achieve his surfaces. Rob puts the red airplane in each painting because when he goes backpacking, he never fails to see a plane in the sky, no matter how remote the area—his own quirky form of expression, or frustration.

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
Courthouse Gallery Fine Art, Ellsworth, Maine, 2007-2010
2009 Maine Ar Work, Courthouse Gallery Fine Art, Ellsworth, Maine.
2007 Portland Museum Of Art Biennial, Portland, Maine.
2006 Church & State/Politics & Religion, Blum Gallery, College Of The Atlantic, Bar Harbor, Maine. Union Of Maine Visual Artists Group Show.
2005 Portland Museum Of Art Biennial, Portland, Maine.
2004 The Upper Coast: Mount Desert Island To Belfast, State House, Augusta, Maine.
The Art Of Lobstering, Penobscot Marine Museum, Searsport, Maine. Curator: Carl Little. Honorable Mention.
Union Of Maine Visual Artists Annual Exhibition, Blum Gallery, College Of The Atlantic, Bar Harbor, Maine.
2003 Musical Revelations, Bangor Symphony Orchestra, Bangor, Maine. Purchase Prize. Jurors: Bruce Brown, Chris Crosman, Wally Mason.
Shelter, Blum Gallery, College Of The Atlantic, Bar Harbor, Maine.
Union Of Maine Visual Artists Group Show.
2002 Birds In Flight, Wendell Gilley Museum, Southwest Harbor, Maine.
Union Of Maine Visual Artists Group Show.
2001 Sesquecentennial Exhibit, Washington (Ct) Art Association.
Hancock County Auditorium, Ellsworth, Maine. One-Person Show.
1997 Maine’s Public Art Legacy, The Blaine House, Augusta, Maine.
1995 Hancock County Auditorium, Ellsworth, Maine. One-Person Show.
1988 Deer Isle Art Association, Deer Isle, Maine. Four-Person Show.
1987 Art Intentions, Hanover, Ma. One-Person Show.
1986 Eighth Annual Juried Exhibition, Maine Coast Artists, Rockport, Maine. Jurors: John S. Ames Iii, Bruce D. Hooton, Victoria Oscarsson.
1985 Summer Preview Show, Mountain Ash Gallery, Brooklin, Maine.
1984 Raid On The Cic, University Of Rhode Island. Curator: Padric Meagher.
1983 27Th National Print Exhibition, Hunterdon Art Center, Clinton, Nj. Jurors: Robert Anderson, Ruth Leaf., Stefan Martin.
35Th Boston Printmakers National Exhibition, Boston University Art Gallery, Boston, Mass. Juror: David Bumbeck.
New England Juried Show, Art Complex Museum, Duxbury, Ma.
1982 Fourth Annual Young Artists Show, Provincetown Art Association And Museum, Provincetown, Ma. Juried.
Summer Group Show, Walkey Gallery, Concord, Ma. Invitational.
Huntingestmen Studio, Marston’s Mills, Ma. One-Person Show.
1981 Open Print Show, Providence Art Club, Providence, Ri. Juried.
Open Jury Show, Cape Cod Art Association, Barnstable, Ma.
1980 Boston Printmakers National Exhibition, Decordova Museum, Lincoln, Ma. Jurors: Gabor Peterdi And Frederick P. Walkey.
All New England Exhibition, Cape Cod Art Association, Barnstable, Ma. Jurors: Roger Curtis, Allen Davidson, Marshall Joyce.
Arts 350, Boston’s Jubilee, Saks Fifth Avenue, Boston, Ma.
Curator: Norma Trust Sherman.
1979 All New England Exhibit, Cape Cod Art Association, Barnstable, Ma. Jurors: Tom Dunlay, Marilyn Lehmann, Sidney Simon.
Arts `79, Temple Beth Am, Framingham Center, Ma.
1977 Patron’s Choice, Artists Under 36, Decordova Museum, Lincoln, Ma. Jurors: Edith Tonelli, Frederick P. Walkey., Merrie Blocker.
1976 Brookline (Ma.) Jewish Community Center, Three-Person Show, Part Of City-Wide Event. Sponsors: Boston Visual Artists Union And Boston 200.
Boston (Ma.) Visual Artists Union Gallery. Invitational.
1975 Cambridge (Ma.) Art Association. Juror: Davis Carroll.
Blue Wheel Gallery, West Barnstable, Ma. One-Person Show.
1974 Blue Wheel Gallery. Invitational.
Open Jury Show, Cape Cod Arts Association.

COMMISSIONS
Painting, Maine Percent for Art Program, Brooklin (Maine) School. 1995.
Cover and Illustrations, Bostonia Magazine, Brookline, MA. 1984.
Illustrations, Bryant College, Smithfield, RI. 1981

COLLECTIONS
The Brooklin School, Brooklin, Maine
Bangor (Maine) Symphony Orchestra
Deer Isle-Stonington Elementary School, Deer Isle, Maine
Mr. and Mrs. Spencer Murfey, Brooklin, Maine
Mount Hermon School, Northampton, Massachusetts
Donald and Fran Putnoi, Cambridge, Massachusetts
The Gunnery School, Washington, Connecticut
Ralph Cahoon, Cotuit, Massachusetts

REVIEWS AND PUBLICATIONS
Carl Little, “Biennial Man,” The Ellsworth American, March 29, 2007.
Carl Little, Paintings of Maine: A New Collection, Down East Books, October 2006.
Abigail Curtis, “Troubled Relations: Maine Artists Find Disconcerting Disconnect Between Religion and Politics in America,” Bangor Daily News, March 11, 2006.
Carl Little, “Church, State Share Walls in COA Show,” The Ellsworth American, March 9, 2006.
William Zimmer, “On Gallery’s Walls: A Reunion,”
The New York Times, May 13, 2001.
Edgar Allen Beem, “The Visual Arts: Rites of Passage in Rockport,”
Maine Times, May 30, 1986.
Emmet Meara, “Maine Coast Gallery’s Juried Exhibit,”
Bangor Daily News, May 30, 1986.
Robert Taylor, “Printmaking Exhibit Conveys Point Deftly,”
Boston Sunday Globe, June 12, 1983.
Jackie Greene, “Sunshine Dairy Immortalized in Three-dimensional Art Work,”
The Wellesley Townsman, December 7, 1978.
Mary Lou Kelley, “Original Art in “Non-arty” Places,”
The Christian Science Monitor, January 28, 1976.

CATALOGS
“Small Works,” Courthouse Gallery Fine Art, Ellsworth, Maine
2007 Biennial, Portland (Maine) Museum of Art
2005 Biennial, Portland (Maine) Museum of Art
DeCordova 1977, The DeCordova Museum, Lincoln, Massachusetts

EDUCATION
Boston University School of Fine Arts, BFA 1970
DeCordova Museum School, silkscreen studies with Anne Ballou, 1978
Born: Boston, Massachusetts, 1947

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