Notable Moments

Santa Paula Museum of Art exhibition 2022

Over the years I have created a lot of personal work that has never been shown and few people have even seen many of the individual pieces. Some of the work was dimensional wall pieces, others were free standing assemblages for pedestals and some are paintings. Because of the nature of the main gallery it provided a more intimate space to show this kind of personal work. In one sense it was a hodgepodge of things but it did represent me. I presented the artwork in the gallery as a biography

Painting in Brand Gallery group show. 2022. The painting is titled “Falling Man” and was painted in September of 2001. The photo was taken at the Brand Library and Art Center, Glendale, Ca.

Show title: Abstract Los Angeles: Four Generations. Abstract art thrives in Los Angeles - whether minimal, geometric, or material; there is always someone making abstractions. Abstract Los Angeles: Four Generations attempts to document a line of inheritance passing from parent to child, teacher to students, older to younger.

Artist short video profile of artist John Robertson who, for many years, used a mobile home for a studio at the beach.

This is a video of my exhibition of large-scale Ventura County Fair paintings I created over a period of six years displayed at the Agriculture Museum in Santa Paula, Ca. It’s just a short walk-through prior to the opening of the museum show featuring art of the animals and people involved in rural life and in the Ventura County area..

Painting Demonstration Technique:  Draw out a cartoon sketch of figure you want to paint  The guidelines are only a rough guide to where to splatter and spread the paint.  Basically, you are filling in the blanks.

Fox Sports Net had me paint basketball paintings for their NBA Basketball Promotions for a season.  The expressive basketball art uses splattering and running paint thrown on the 7 foot paintings canvas.  The quality is not the best but you can get the idea.

LA Times Article About Artist John Robertson

There is an intriguing article about the sports artist John Robertson from the Los Angeles Times written by the Pulitzer Prize winning columnist Al Martinez.  It was published in the Los Angeles Times, front page, Southern California Living Section E, Thursday, July 19, 2001.  Although the column was written s number of years ago it certainly captures the essence of John.

Willie Mays video interview with Derek Jeter & Ken Griffey Jr.

May 6th was Willie Mays birthday. Born in 1931. Back in 2007 I was hired by by Fox Sport to create three large-scale paintings baseball images of Willie Mays for an interview shown during the pregame show for the (MLB) All-Star Game in San Francisco. Two of the paintings were 4 ½ feet by 6 feet and the other baseball art was 4 feet by 8 feet, acrylic on unstretched canvas. The interview was with Derek Jeter and Ken Griffey Jr..

My art installed at the Wildling Museum in Solvang, Ca. for a group show. I have 65 small, expressive and impressionistic oil paintings for the exhibition. Quote from the Wildling Museum; “Our exhibition, 'Bio/Mass' features an inspiring group of eleven contemporary artists who have transformed their fascination with deep observations of their individual environments into works that help us to see the beauty in the details of our world, celebrating both quiet and dramatic moments in nature”.

Wearable Art Fashion Show Ventura County Museum of History & Art - “Wearing Our Stories: Rising from the Ashes” 

I know, it’s art and it’s fashion - two things you are probably not interested in. But there is “meaning” here. This is about destruction and rebirth in the aftermath of the massive and most destructive 440 square miles Thomas wildfire in California. The museum of Ventura County put on an art fashion show where artists created clothing to “mend our spirit and give us the strength to move forward and rebuild”. How does it do that? That is the question. Art is supposed to be cathartic.

1 min time-lapse video of artist, John Robertson in his art studio, painting a large scale, 8 feet by 8 feet, acrylic on canvas landscape painting.

Examples of some of my sports paintings in stadiums and arena’s. not all paintings and stadiums represented as i did not always have access to where they were hanging.

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