Robert Standish: New Terrains"
The universe is volatile, but it is in its nature to seek balance. In his studio, painter Robert Standish—whose practice encompasses both the mastery of photorealism and the surrender of expressive abstraction—embraces the pure fractal laws of nature, and also seeks to transcend them. His latter day work has pursued abstraction to explore instinct, emotion, rhythm, and an untamed palette; and Standish has become increasingly aware of the way his body and vision become attuned to the energies of not only the paint but its potential. As he works, a delicate conversation unfolds between what the heart has in mind and what the paint proposes.
Standish’s enchantment with the metaphysical texture of the invisible world yields explosive ziggurats, prismatic passages of jewel-tone depths and impasto peaks, organic and glitchy ripples, interfered-with ethereal auras flecked with pure color, and poetic color stories that speak to the spectrum of emotion. Increasingly, the intuitive f
