- WORKS
- BIOGRAPHY
- EXHIBITIONS

An early practitioner of the principles of California’s Light & Space ethos, Roberts has eschewed the customarily synthetic, modern materials and dimensional installations common to the movement and instead uses some of the oldest and most traditional art-making instruments available: paint and canvas. This gesture away from new, fabricated materials deemphasizes the sensuousness of modern industrial enterprise and signals instead an emphasis on the perceptual effects of light as mixed with pigment, and contained within a painting.
On first glance these images’ balanced gradations are almost imperceptible in their subtlety. Once the viewer slows down to the works’ required patience, their surfaces are revealed to have been meticulously constructed with countless thin layers of paint in an array of tones, producing a glowing effect as if the canvases themselves were radiating from within.
Roberts’ latest works range from very pale to almost black; they all depict faintly receding planes that look to our eye to be translucent, and from under which there appears to be a murmur of glowing light. The effect is a series of paintings that are illusory and hypnotic
Selected One Person Exhibitions 1981 Asher-Faure Gallery, Los Angeles 2000 Kiyo Higashi Gallery, Los Angeles 2001 Kiyo Higashi Gallery, Los Angeles 2002 Peter Blake Gallery, Laguna Beach 2003 Kiyo Higashi Gallery, Los Angeles 2003 Peter Blake Gallery, Laguna Beach 2005 Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Santa Monica 2006 Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Santa Monica 2007 Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Santa Monica 2009 Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Santa Monica 2012 Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Santa Monica 2014 Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Santa Monica