The Bowery

The Bowery

by Robert Santoré:

100 X 176  inches

Oil, oil stick, military and industrial enamels on paper on canvas

Robert Santoré is an internationally collected contemporary artist, painter, sculptor & photographer with studio practices in Manhattan, New York and at his Texas art ranch in Montgomery, Texas. His use of defined or extant symbols differentiated his paintings from the gestural abstraction of the Abstract Expressionists, (however he including this method of painting) whose paintings were often understood as expressive of the individual personality or psychology of the artist. Because Santoré has imported well-known motifs into his works, his paintings can be read as both representational (a factories, figures, aircraft) and as abstract patterns.

Curators and collector’s characterize his choice of subjects as freeing him from decisions about composition. Santoré has remarked: “What’s interesting to me is developing an interconnected visual language and exploring common element across various narratives and composition . It’s not all mine, or, that the visual language I repete are “is the mind already knows and challenges the viewer to relearn what they recognize.