ROBERT TUCKER
inspired by nature
Robert Tucker is an extraordinary visual artist. I happily own a few of Tucker's collages which are striking--unforgettable, and once you've seen them you will know what I mean. He works with images from the natural world--biology, entomology, geology ( a lot of the 'ogy's ), creating disturbing and funny and somehow still quite beautiful landscapes. Much of his three dimensional work resembles cocoons and these seem to have been born from the physical world without the hand of man.
Craig Lucas
writer, director, producer (1994)
Robert's works are at once both organic and metaphysical, with nuances of a womblike nourishment and decay. His images although quite fluid and often amorphous, however, still seem to yearn for nature's order... as man has always emulated the balance within nature's forces of life and death.
Take in an image with an uncluttered mind and let him stir a little trouble in your head. Your day will be the better.
Mark Dylan Sieber (2010)
FIBRIL 1994 9"H x 22"W x 11"D
paper, fiber, raffia, oil
FURL 1995 12"H X 24"W x 28"D
paper, fiber,oil
"WRAPPED AND BOUND" SOLO EXHIBITION 1995
ARTEMISIA GALLERY, CHICAGO
paper, wood, oil, slate 1996
fiber, oil 1996
REFUSE: THE GARDEN EXHIBITION 1991
DETROIT, MICHIGAN
BLUE BABY 1991 42" x 14" x 14"
birch, limestone, raffia
BIFID ELONGATION TRIO 2009
fiber, oil, horn
ENGENDER 2009 9"H x 8"W x 8"D
fiber,oil
BOXED DIVISION 2009
porcelain, wood, steel. oil
BITS WITH HAIR 2007
porcelain, hair, ink, oil
PORCH 2008
assemblage 13.5 x 9.3
WHITE ON WHITE ASSEMBLAGE 2007
18 x 12
GEAR 2003
assemblage
ANOTHER GERMINATION 2003
assemblage 11 x 13
UNLATCHED 2003
assemblage