Charlie Roberts "Reckoning"

Kravets/Wehby Gallery

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In the very recent past, the energetic young artist Charlie Roberts has run the gamut from small drawings and paintings to massive sculpture and installation. Forays into music and film production provide a constant stream of inspiration in Charlie's endless and dynamic drive to create. But, every now and then, an artist returns to where it all started, in a "RECKONING" of sorts. After immensely ambitious site-specific installations in Europe and the US, Roberts turns to potent, yet petite, paintings on paper. In each intimate painting, whole worlds are contained. In one work Lilliputian men scramble around in a frenzy of activity. In another, art historic works are packed into what appears to be a dream studio of sorts. Pop culture continues to inspire, but the paintings are more contained in their epic historic reference to culture throughout the ages. Each culturally packed vignette reminds the viewer of the cyclical nature of events. Charlie marches forward despite global panic the eternal room for discovery presses on in niches overlooked by trends of excess.

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from December 11, 2008 to January 17, 2009

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Charlie Roberts

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