Robert Standish (born September 18, 1964,
Los Angeles, California) is an American
artist
An artist is a person engaged in an activity related to creating art, practicing the arts, or demonstrating an art. The common usage in both everyday speech and academic discourse refers to a practitioner in the visual arts only. However, th ...
.
Standish received a BA in
psychology from
Antioch University in 1996. Standish's debut painting exhibition took place in Los Angeles in 2002 at lemon sky: projects + editions, a gallery which provided the artist with his very first solo exhibit, receiving a highly favorable review in various publications including FlashArt magazine. lemon sky gallery was the first to place the artist's work with important collectors, such as Los Angeles Collector, Dan Fauci and the Manilows. More recently, Standish was positively profiled in ''
Juxtapoz Art & Culture Magazine''. Works by Standish are in the collection of noted
art collector Lewis Manilow
Lewis Manilow (born Irvin Inger; August 11, 1927 – December 12, 2017) was an American attorney, real estate developer, and arts patron.
Biodata
Manilow was known as one of the founders of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago. He helped fund ...
, and in the collection of the
Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA). A November 2008 show by Standish at the Carrie Secrist Gallery of
Chicago, Illinois garnered a positive review from the ''
Chicago Tribune'', which reported that "Standish's use of logos suggests ironic social commentary, as if, say, Nike or Citibank were 'sponsors' of his street people. It's an oddity one puts up with for the sake of his dazed, tremulous nocturnal vision".
[Alan G. Artner, "Older ways of painting get their due in series", '' Chicago Tribune'' (November 14, 2008), ON THE TOWN; ZONE C; IN THE GALLERIES; Pg. 18.]
External links
Website of Robert Standish
References
1964 births
Living people
Artists from California
Antioch University alumni
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