Robert Hoerlein
Santa Fe, NM
the line itself gives itself #5
Oil, ashes, acrylic, and graphite on canvas
43” x 32” x 2.125”
2022
$6800
About
Robert Hoerlein is a mixed media artist living in Santa Fe NM. Raised in Colorado, Hoerlein holds a BA in Fine Art from the University of Colorado, Boulder.
His paintings have been exhibited in commercial galleries, university galleries, and museums in New York, Santa Fe, San Francisco, and Des Moines, among others. Solo exhibitions have been at Zane Bennett Gallery in Santa Fe, Moberg Gallery in Des Moines, Lawson Gallery in San Francisco, Mills Gallery at Central College in Pella Iowa, and at ICON Gallery in Fairfield, Iowa.
Group shows include G2 Gallery Santa Fe, The Drawing Center In New York City, Scott Hanson Gallery in New York City, Zane Bennett Gallery in Santa Fe, The Des Moines Art Center, Moberg Gallery in Des Moines Iowa, the Palm Springs Desert Museum in California, the Art Center at Highland Park Illinois, Coe College in Cedar Rapids Iowa, among others.
His work has been featured in The San Francisco Chronicle, the Des Moines Register, the Albuquerque Journal, the Cedar Rapids Gazette, among other publications. His artworks are included in many corporate and private collections. Robert Hoerlein’s persistent search through his work is to find the essential, and to create an exact and unexpected relationship between very different physical and pictorial elements.
Artist Statement
I’m learning to free the line, to let it wander. Free from my intention, the line finds it’s own way; it remains as a trace of it’s making. Not a representation of anything, it remains essential, it remains vital.
The line can move forward or recede, go from taught to slack, go far underneath or leap off the surface. Color appears, new every time it happens; sudden, as color always is.
The linework is the record of the moment of it’s making. It’s not trying to be anything else.
Portfolio
Representation
G2 Gallery,
Santa Fe, NM
Moberg Gallery,
Chicago, IL and Des Moines, IA
Art from Robert Hoerlein in other TAAC exhibitions
