Robert Winslow Mixed-Media Abstract

Robert Winslow emerged as a recognized sculptor and painter in the late 1970s. Winslow attended the University of California Irvine and the University of Arizona, where he studied Art. He moved to Chicago, Illinois, where significant corporations commissioned him to do many monumental stone and bronze sculptures. His paintings and sculptures are in the collections of many prominent corporations, including McDonald's Corp., Helene Curtis Corp., The Chicago Board Options Exchange, GATX, Siemens, and Loyola University in Chicago. He is also in several museums, including the Los Angeles Museum of Modern Art, Nelson Art Center on the ASU Campus in Tempe, AZ, and public collections including the City of Barrington, IL, Scottsdale Center for the Arts, Scottsdale, AZ, and The South bend museum of Art. Born in 1950, Robert Winslow spent most of his formative years in Los Angeles and Phoenix, Arizona. Winslow started painting and sculpting stone at a very early age and was in his first museum show at thirteen. There began his lifelong love and obsession with creating Art. His body of work includes many mediums. He is a master sculptor and has worked with marble, granite, optical glass, wood, bronze, and mixed media. His paintings are powerful, masterfully textured, and engagingly thought-provoking. Winslow melds his sculptural and painting talents with his interpretation of Jungian archetypes. Evident in his paintings and sculptures is the inspiration he draws from pre-Columbian art, influenced by his many trips to Mexico. Although Winslow works in different mediums, and usually simultaneously, the medium does not drive his work; it is the Art that moves his work. Or, in his own words, "For me the medium isn't the Art. The Art comes before the medium." His interests lie in esoteric philosophies and readings detected in his sculptures and paintings. He has explored many themes throughout his professional career but seems to always center on exploring the inner self. When starting a new piece or series, Winslow never looks for an objective goal, which suggests an ending. He states, "Sometimes things cannot be resolved and lead to related themes. Life is seldom definite and clear-cut. I strive to create archetypal images which are personal but at the same time universal and common to all".