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"ROBERT
RAUSCHENBERG: RECENT WORK" March
28 - April 28, 2002
 The
Gallery of Fine Art, Edison College, is pleased to
welcome back world-renowned artist Robert Rauschenberg.
This exhibit, titled "Robert Rauschenberg: Recent
Work" is taken from Mr. Rauschenberg's most recent
series of paintings, titled "Short Stories,"
which was executed between 2000 and 2002.
Robert
Rauschenberg, often cited as the most important artist
of his generation, did more than any other artist
to reach beyond contemporary thinking by challenging
limits, perceptions, and every other boundary in sight.
After all, this is the artist who erased a deKooning
drawing, created a tire impression on paper with John
Cage, worked extensively with the Merce Cunningham
Dance Company, ushered in "Happenings" and
"Pop Art," and influenced virtually all
artistic thinking since Abstract Expressionism.
A career retrospective was organized by and displayed
at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York and
the Guggenheim Museum, Soho, in late 1997. The exhibit
of more than 400 pieces showed Rauschenberg from 1948
to the present. In the fifty years of relentless pursuit
of imagery, Rauschenberg's mark of free association
and experimentation is seen on painting, performance,
collage, sculpture, printmaking, and photography.
It was Rauschenberg's first retrospective since 1976
and one of the largest exhibitions ever held of work
by a living artist. Following the New York opening
the exhibit began touring with stops in Houston, Texas,
as well as venues in Germany and Spain.
The
exhibit at The Gallery of Fine Art, Edison College,
is comprised of 15 large format pieces, measuring
85 ½" x 61", that were completed
between 2000 and 2002. The mixed media work, all on
polylaminate, was executed using a pigment transfer
process or vegetable dye transfer process, and also
incorporates acrylic and/or graphite. The highly technical
process Mr. Rauschenberg uses to create his work was
developed at his Captiva studio. The process includes
creating, on a film, computer-driven soluble (transferable)
laser images of Mr. Rauschenberg's own photographs.
Those laser images are then used by Mr. Rauschenberg
in creating his paintings.
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