Faculty News: Rob Roy Exhibits at HallSpace

May 14, 2014

Rob Roy
American Road

On View: May 10 – June 21, 2014

HallSpace presents recent monotypes, and paintings by Montserrat College of Art Prof. Rob Roy. This Is Roy’s second exhibition at HallSpace.

Roy has incorporated color samples of the sort one would find at a hardware store’s paint department into his work, bringing physical, ready-made pieces from the world at large into his paintings and drawings. They are combined with imagery and strategies employed in earlier work. The use of these house paint samples, Roy says, “forces me to use different color combinations.” And as has been true throughout his career, experimentation, trial-and-error, and constant exploration throughout the process of creating these works have combined to yield inventive and instructive results.
– excerpt from American Road, Rob Roy’s Long View essay by Gordon Arnold

In 2011, Rob Roy collaborated with Gordon Arnold, and Leonie Bradbury on the exhibition For the Record, Searching for Objectivity in Global Conflict.

Rob Roy earned a MFA from Yale University, and a BFA from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. His work is in many public collections including the Museum of Modern Art, NYC, Housatonic Museum of Art, Danforth Museum of Art, Art Complex Museum, the Boston Public Library, and the College of New Jersey. He is currently Professor of Painting and Drawing at Montserrat College of Art, where he has been on the faculty since 1988.

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Gallery Hours:
Friday and Saturday 12-5pm
Monday – Thursday by appointment

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