Always Beauty in Hindsight
By Robert Mars marsrob
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Category: Arts & Photography
Tags: Route 66, Stephen Shore, Drive In Theater, Ford Mustang, Muscle Cars, Roadside America, Americana, Rauschenberg, Neon, Motel, Vintage, Nostalgia
My work is a chronicle of Americana. I am determined to capture the independent aesthetic of the not-so-distant past that has been replaced by homogenized corporate culture and standardized cityscapes. Industrial design, graphic design, architecture and vintage neon all render important roles in my work.
My paintings employ layers of color, subtly collaged printed matter from the 1950’s and 1960’s, and stark, black imagery. Remote, indistinct landscapes capture the once poetic, and now nearly lost highway strips of the American past. Formerly the promise of hope and prosperity; these icons are now a sign of desperation and ruin.
As a painter I have shown in galleries in Tokyo, Munich, Portland, New York, Seattle, Aspen, Vancouver, Melbourne, Boston, and Austin.
Large Format Landscape 13x11 inches (33x28 cm) 32 pages
Published: May 5, 2008
