Robert Santore
Robert Santore is an internationally collected contemporary artist, painter & sculptor with studio practice in Manhattan, New York and Montgomery Texas.
Robert is 5th generation Texan having spent his early years in the United Kingdom as an “air force brat”, and his formative years growing up in Southern California beach towns; Huntington Beach, Newport Beach and Laguna Beach, California. He was accepted into the prestigious UCLA Film School but chose instead to focus on contemporary art and attended Parsons School of Design in New York as well as the Otis Art Institute of Parsons School of Design in Los Angeles, CA and later attended the University Of California at Irvine.
Robert began creating large scale works of art & editions from his downtown Los Angeles loft before leaving school. His first solo painting exhibition was held at the Jerry Solomon Gallery in Los Angeles, CA in November 1986 and sold out. He has had solo exhibitions sponsored by the City Of Los Angeles, Security Pacific Bank/The Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art, The Los Angeles Municipal Art Collection, The Jerry Solomon Gallery in Los Angeles, The Brenden Walter’s Gallery in Santa Monica California and The Portfolio Gallery of Fine Art in Beverly Hills, California and has participated in many group shows & exhibitions both in the United States and internationally.
Robert is in the permanent collections of The Newport Harbor Art Museum, The Laguna Beach Museum of Contemporary Art and the San Jose Museum of Art and is in many private and corporate collections. [read more…]
2020 SURVEY
“FAST FOOD” © 2021
60in” x 306in” (152.4cm x 777.24cm)
Oil, oil stick, military & industrial enamels, gloss varnishes, charcoal & contie crayon on canvas on birch panel with micro-layer clay ground.
View Painting | Editions | Painted in the Texas Studio | View Other Monumental Word Paintings
KAVA Series
“Tavarua Cloudbreak”
© 2020 | 108in” x 156in” (274.32cm x 398.78cm) Unframed image size
Acrylic on paper painted on hand torn archival cold press cotton rag watercolor paper. Giclée edition of 25 also available.
View Painting |Editions | Painted in the Texas Studio.
STUDIO PRACTICE: TEXAS
2018~2020 STUDIO PRACTICE
Robert Santore operates studios in Montgomery County Texas and Manhattan's Upper West Side.
2019~2020
Monoprints & Works on Paper
2019~2020
LARGER WORKS ON PAPER & EDITIONS
Hand cut giant wood block prints, acrylics and oils on paper, charcoal drawings and limited edition museum quality giclée prints on the finest quality acid free papers.
These works each reference the large monumental works on canvas and wood panels. The subject matter “The Man Rabbit House“, “The Club Sandwich Series” the “Tavarua Surfing & Kava Ceremonies“, “Jellyfish” from my many travels to the South Pacific. Jazz in the East Village or Harlem, Disco in NYC, Prague and Madrid. The “Genetic Memories Series” (“What Tommy Saw” & “What Charlie Saw” from the stores from my grandfathers, living through the cold war and the deep art history scholarly roots of my family. COVID Nudes created during the worst of the lockdowns in Manhattan Studioall brought together in the large word paintings, converted into editions listed here.
STUDIO PRACTICE: Manhattan
2018~2020 STUDIO PRACTICE
Robert Santore operates studios in Montgomery County Texas and Manhattan's Upper West Side.
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STUDIO PRACTICE: Sculpture
“FITS & STARTS” in steel
The “FITS & STARTS” “jellyfish” shape realized in corten steel at monumental size located onsite at the Texas studio.
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Studio Practice
TEXAS STUDIO
14648 SH-105
Plantersville, Texas, 77363
Mailing Address
20821 D. Eva Street, Box 82
Montgomery, Texas, 77356
MANHATTAN STUDIO
215 W. 84th Street, Loft 126
New York, NY 10024
C/WA: +1 (936)276-8783
Email: hello@robertsantore.com
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