Structure and Imagery

  Photo by Jeff Frederick   Photo by Jeff Frederick Photo by Robin Stout   Brooke Moyse, Partick Berran, Trudy Benson, Jeff frederick, Gary Petersen, Robert Otto Epstein and Paul Behnke.  Photo by Jake Cartwright Paul Behnke, Craig Taylor and Trudy Benson   Trudy Benson   Paul Behnke  Keltie Ferris, Robert Otto Epstein, Paul Behnke  Trudy Benson   Craig Taylor  Brooke Moyse   Curator Jeff Frederick and Paul Behnke Photo by Robin Stout   Brooke Moyse   Gary Petersen Partick Berran If Color Could Kill curated by Jeff Frederick Featuring work by: Paul Behnke, Trudy Benson, Patrick Berran, Robert Otto Epstein, Keltie Ferris, Brooke Moyse, Gary Petersen and Craig Taylor April 4 - April 29, 2016 Salena Gallery at Long Island University info **If Color Could Kill will...

Robert Otto Epstein

Robert Otto Epstein in his studio, Maplewood, NJ 2014 I recently had the opportunity to visit the Maplewood, NJ studio of painter Robert Otto Epstein . Epstein's colorful and meticulous grid-based work draws from a variety of surprising sources and often employs color placement strategies related to chance or more formal systems devised by the artist. In Epstein's case, however, the conceptual elements and source material can be seen as a means to an end that enhances the work but does not encompass it. The finished paintings move beyond their sources and become something all together different. Many times transcendent, the compositions and colors seem in flux and flow along the channels of their boundaries seeming at first abstract, then a mandala or landscape and then a ball player all within the borders of the same piece. Epstein is very active in the Bushwick art scene and recently his work has been featured in  exhibits at Mulherin +...

Robert Otto Epstein , 8Bitterized , 2013, acrylic on paper, 30x30 in.   Pinkney Herbert , Orbit, 2014, oil and digital print on panel, 14x10 in. Ab Fab 2 featuring work by: Eric Sall, Robert Otto Epstein, Sarah Bednarek, Jared Clark, Pinkney Herbert, Tom Condon, Michael Brown, and Sandra Luckett through June 29, 2014 Mulhern + Pollard 187 Chrystie Street New York, NY 10002