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Robert Dye

Robert Dye

Portland, UNITED STATES

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Open for Interpretations-

Paintings contrived to resemble a photo,
Photographs translated through the computer to impersonate a painting,
depictions of a family affair, or event, to communicate the small and intricate, but meaningful cliches of our modern existence.
I find myself looping through the ever expanding amount of imagery before us, sifting through it all in search of those rarer, finely executed works,
appeased by the finite amount of pieces produced by fearless hands,
and disregarding the fleeting frustrations of the superficial.
I think to myself every moment of everyday, with so many concepts filling my heart and head at an exponential rate, trying to keep up and bring it all to fruition, there is really only one thought that begins it all:
What would you create, draw, paint, impress,
if you were the las…

Thanks Bubble Community-

I wanted to take a moment to convey my sincerest Thank You to the Community of RedBubble for adding me to their watchlist. I am grateful to have the opportunity to have more new artists review all of the varieties of my paintings, drawings, and mixed works.
Also I wanted to add a brief note that I am still finishing many recent works and uploading images of older pieces. Some of the current works in my portfolio will be updated with more information and descriptions, and a lot of them are constantly being shifted from page to page to present a nicer “flow” through the works. Hope you all enjoy my efforts and can understand that art is a progressively growing, living and breathing form of communication. I genuinely hope that you will bare with me as I am learning new proce…

Fellow Bubblers & My Watchlist-

Dear fellow Bubblers, and to those of you on my Watchlist, I wanted to take a moment to express my sincerest gratitude for having my work viewed. I have had one solo exhibit of work in 2005, (after graduating from my community college) at a small local coffee house. It was displayed for a month and there were mixed reactions to it (as is the case with art). For the most part, the small city that I live in is highly conservative, and I have often times felt overwhelmingly repressed and under-appreciated as a young, struggling artist/painter. It is not the acceptance of others that I desire or lack, but it can be nourishing and uplifting to have some positive feedback. I sometimes feel that I am flailing and falling through the cracks of society. Now I have found a much needed, ̶…