2018
Exceptional color combinations balanced with loosely configured shapes define the abstract geometric art of noted painter and typographer Robert Petrick. Through his rhythmic and lyrical abstract paintings, Petrick explores avant-garde style while establishing a link between the street culture of the East Village in New York City and the beauty of language.
Born in 1945, Petrick won a high school scholarship to study at Philadelphia’s Tyler School of Art, now the Tyler School of Art and Architecture at Temple University. In 1983, he moved to New York City, where he became immersed in developing his unique artistic style, based on the New York School of Abstract Expressionism, as coined by the artist Robert Motherwell in 1949.
The following year, Petrick gained critical attention for two designs he stenciled on the walls of New York’s Avenue B. Titled EXIT/EXIST and NOWHERE/NOW HERE, the works were featured in Vogue magazine and recognized by critics as compelling graffiti art.
Throughout his distinguished career, Petrick’s figurative paintings, still-life works and graphic designs have been featured on album covers and in commercial projects. His series include Shape, Gesture, Graffiti and the recent City Block, in which Petrick conveys the atmosphere of the East Village with color, shapes, energy and density.
Petrick has exhibited in solo and group gallery shows throughout New York. His works are also in demand with collectors of 20th- and 21st-century abstract art.
On 1stDibs, discover a range of Robert Petrick’s paintings.
Liquid Path
By Robert Petrick
Located in Los Angeles, CA
"Liquid Path" 12x16x.5 acrylic on canvas 2018 Alphabet CIty / East Village, New York Signed, dated and titled on the reverse side. "Seminal direction e...
Acrylic
marks #3
By Robert Petrick
Located in Los Angeles, CA
(3 of a group of 4) Set of 4 offered for $2500 In 1984, Robert Petrick stenciled two designs on walls along Avenue B. Capturing the zeitgeist of the time, EXIST / EXIT and NOWHERE ...
Canvas, Oil
A Complicated Journey
By Robert Petrick
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A Complicated Journey Graffiti & Line series 2012 acrylic on canvas 42 x 42 inches Signed, dated and titled on the reverse side Robert Petrick's paintings create a link between the...
Acrylic
marks #1
By Robert Petrick
Located in Los Angeles, CA
(1 of a group of 4) Set of four for 2500 In 1984, Robert Petrick stenciled two designs on walls along Avenue B. Capturing the zeitgeist of the time, EXIST / EXIT and NOWHERE / NOW...
Oil
Cold Fusion 3
By Robert Petrick
Located in Los Angeles, CA
"Cold Fusion 3" Stripe infusion Series 2017 acrylic on canvas 18X18" Signed, dated and titled on the reverse side Robert Petrick's paintings create a link between the street cultu...
Acrylic
marks #2
By Robert Petrick
Located in Los Angeles, CA
(2 of a group of 4) Set of 4 offered for $2500 In 1984, Robert Petrick stenciled two designs on walls along Avenue B. Capturing the zeitgeist of the time, EXIST / EXIT and NOWHERE /...
Canvas, Oil
Immersion #8
By Richard Orient
Located in Fairfield, CT
My abstract paintings are also glimpses of nature. Some of these paintings read as landscapes of a different world, a wondrous space. Others are about the more intimate aspects of na...
Paper, Acrylic
Untitled
By Richard Orient
Located in Fairfield, CT
My abstract paintings are also glimpses of nature. Some of these paintings read as landscapes of a different world, a wondrous space. Others are about the more intimate aspects of na...
Paper, Acrylic
Silk Terrace
By Miguel Rodriguez
Located in Dallas, TX
ink & flashe on paper
Paper, Ink
Immersion #7
By Richard Orient
Located in Fairfield, CT
My abstract paintings are also glimpses of nature. Some of these paintings read as landscapes of a different world, a wondrous space. Others are about the more intimate aspects of na...
Paper, Acrylic
Elixir, Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
By Hal Mayforth
Located in Yardley, PA
A willy nilly composition of black and brown brushstrokes dividing the picture plane. This painting was completed over a long period of time. :: Painting :: Abstract :: This piece co...
Acrylic
Cosmic Shift
By John Barkley
Located in Montreal, Quebec
"I am an experimental painter. I have been working on my craft since 1996. I start work with a conceptual point of entry and then work intuitively, in dialogue with the work. The art...
Canvas, Oil
