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Robert Stackhouse"Working Drawing for an Unfinished Project, " Lithograph by Robert Stackhouse2000
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"Working Drawing for an Unfinished Project" is an original lithograph by Robert Stackhouse, numbered 99 578. It depicts abstract, sculptural drawings of a project the artist was working on. The artist signed the piece lower right.
21" x 30"
Robert Stackhouse (born 1942 in Bronxville, New York, United States) is an American artist and sculptor.
Stackhouse graduated with a bachelor's degree from the University of South Florida in 1965. He later earned a master's degree at the University of Maryland, College Park in studio art. USF's Contemporary Art Museum contains an archive of his work, with copies of all of his prints over the course of his career.
"Drawing is an integral part of my work," Stackhouse has written. "Source drawings, plans for sculptural projects and documentations of finished installations fill the majority of my studio time. Because I originally studied painting, I conceive of my sculptures two dimensionally rather than in three dimensions. I see them as pictures, not volumetric structures."
Stackhouse calls his work "a self-portrait" and says that the source of his
imagery is "change as in growth, life and death, journeys, knowledge, and
transformation. "The sources I draw are ships and serpents and shadows," he adds. "These source images can appear at any time on my project plans or documentation drawings. My drawing chronicles my method.
Making my sculpture is an experience; drawing is my skill." The esthetics of drawing and sculpture are "very different," he adds. "In two dimensions, I'm king of the cosmos and can do anything I please. In three dimensions, I must follow the rules or the piece falls apart." He calls his work "a kind of dialogue" between the sculptures and the drawings. Stackhouse never shows his heart in his work. His visual vocabulary and approach to making art have remained remarkably consistent since his professional career began in 1969.
Stackhouse believes that an artist can work fruitfully with just a few forms. "Whenever I get stuck," he says, "I draw snakes to get myself started again." The artist makes drawings that are huge (up to 12 feet tall), poster-like and theatrical, with the imagery centered in a frame and dramatically lit. He draws the frame in pencil and writes the title of the drawing and his name in big letters across the bottom. "Theater had a huge impact on me at an early age," he explains. "I was a stage hand type in college. I designed and built sets, acquiring skills I would later use to fabricate sculpture."
Expressive and functional Stackhouse drawings can be termed expressive and functional. Those we call expressive advance his art. He makes them primarily for himself, often in uncommercial sizes, and he can be ambivalent about selling them. Functional works -- smaller drawings, watercolors and prints -- he sells to make his living. Also included in this category are documentary drawings and work-related notebooks.
In 32 years, Robert Stackhouse has produced so much important work that a modest retrospective selection filled a museum to the bursting point. At a time in his career when he has earned the right to relax, this artist continues to challenge himself. He wants to start painting again, something he has not done since art school. "What really attracts me," he says, "is an unanswered question."
- Creator:Robert Stackhouse (1942, American)
- Creation Year:2000
- Dimensions:Height: 21 in (53.34 cm)Width: 30 in (76.2 cm)
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- Gallery Location:Milwaukee, WI
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