Robert Walker “Zhoosh”

About

The presentation will include 14 works comprised of thirteen small-to-medium easel-sized, mixed media paintings on panel and one painting on paper. The imagery is dense and colorful, not quite vignettes nor a montage with a common thread or theme that delivers a particular story. Instead, they are episodes or burst of the artists thoughts, art historical references and moments of inspiration that create a cohesive visual experience. The images range from symbols and iconography that reference diverse cultures, religions and belief systems to formal concerns in art coming out of Modernism and Post-War abstraction.

The artist’s exhibition title, Zhoosh, actually sums up the paintings and presentation very succinctly. According to the definition from the Oxford dictionary, zhoosh is “to make something more exciting, lively or attractive”. Looking at the images of the paintings, it is clear that the artist managed to a go beyond Zhoosh!