Robert Szot: LOUD LOVE

Artist Reception | Saturday, June 4th, 2022 | 3–5 pm

The show LOUD LOVE is an excursion into the exuberant and dynamic manner of the way Robert Szot lays paint down. As we stand in front of the paintings and examine the layers within the canvas, we see the colors begin to coalesce and are seemingly encouraged into the mysteries held within.

The ease with which Szot uses paint to form and mold color and shapes into each other shows the hand of an artist well versed and unafraid of the language of paint. I literally find myself wanting to enter and swim amidst the gorgeous layers of colors. Colors whose relationships to each other are so perfect that I marvel at the ease Szot urges them into their place. 

In the words of Robert Szot: “Painting is meant to be difficult, exploratory, and in those rare instances, ecstatic. I’ve always been captivated by paintings that leave behind traces of having been labored over because the best painters, in my opinion, are adept problem solvers, editors, and ideally, cartographers of instinct. When I begin a painting I allow the unique story of it to unfold, intuitively, methodically as I argue and grapple with it, experiencing the full range of sensations, from fallibility to a kind of rapture. I’ve spent my entire life trying to be understood. I’m not sure I’ve been very successful at it, but it's a bit easier to communicate through painting. Perhaps it’s because a painting demands audience participation, or there is a bit of mystery in painting that brings people into the fold and makes them want to delve a little deeper.”

— Jack Fischer

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