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Roberto Azank    (Argentine, 1955)

 Roberto Azank - Still Life #241 with Clematis (Paintings)
Roberto Azank
Still Life #241 with Clematis
 
 Roberto Azank - Still Life with Equinopsis (Paintings) h: 42 x w: 52 in / h: 106.7 x w: 132.1 cm
Roberto Azank
Still Life with Equinopsis 2005
 
 

Biography
1955 Born in Buenos Aires, Argentina
1970s School of Architecture University of Buenos Aires, Argentina
1970s University of Buenos Aires, Studied Photography
1979 Moved to US
The grandson of an oil-on-canvas artist and son of a Master Embroidery Designer. Roberto went on to first study photography and later architecture at the University of Buenos Aires. In 1979 he moved to the United States where experimentation with various artistic forms and media led to his decision to pursue a career in the arts. As he continued to hone his craft, Azank began painting brightly colored abstract works in acrylics. By the late eighties, his style had evolved from abstract to figurative and he started painting in oils and found in his still life works the definitive style for which he is known.

Roberto’s canvases convey a sense of hyper-reality through his bold use of color, precise line and controlled composition. His rendering of common objects such as flowers, fruits and curvaceous vessels set against the background of almost fauvist bisected bold color planes is being exemplified by superb draftsmanship. These color planes, often indescribable in hue, are the cornerstone of Azank=s work, while the still life objects act as vehicles for exploration of positive and negative space, placement and scale. He elects to omit unnecessary ornamentation from his compositions, choosing instead to emphasize the precision and draftsmanship he originally investigated in architecture school. Azank does not paint Still Lifes, but rather portraits of non-living objects, he has returned the romantic tradition of still life painting to its rightful place and made a love for the sublime acceptable.

Now at mid career, Roberto Azank describes himself as a metaclassical artist whose interests lie in the abstract qualities of realism as opposed to the photographic copying of nature.


Exhibitions
2006 Eleonore Austerer Gallery, Palm Desert, California
2005 Unison Arts Center, “Still Life Retrospective”, New Paltz, NY
2005 The Simmons Gallery, San Francisco, California
2005 Eleonore Austerer Gallery, Palm Desert, California
2004 Eleonore Austerer Gallery, Palm Desert, CA
2004 Patricia Rovzar Gallery, Seattle, Washington
2004 Center of the Earth Gallery, Charlotte, North Carolina
2004 The Simmons Gallery, San Francisco, California
2004 Eleonore Austerer Gallery, Palm Desert, California
2003 Eleonore Austerer Gallery, San Francisco, CA (solo)
2003 Addison-Ripley Gallery, Washington, DC (solo)
2003 Arteaméricas Miami 2003, represented by ArtSpace/Virginia Miller Galleries, Coral Gables (Miami), Florida
2003 Eleonore Austerer Gallery, Palm Springs, CA
2002 “The New Realism,” Center of The Earth Gallery, Charlotte, NC
2002 “Still Lifes,” Bachelier-Cardonsky Gallery, Kent, CT
2002 “Roberto Azank – Paintings 2002,” Eleonore Austerer Gallery, San Francisco, CA (solo)
2002 “Roberto Azank – Still Lifes 2002,” Austerer♦Crider Gallery, Palm Springs, CA (solo)
2002 “Flower Power,” with Ed Baynard, Roberto Lauro, Siegward Sprotte, and Daniel Phil, Austerer♦Crider Gallery, Palm Springs, CA
2001 Lyons-Wier/Packer Gallery, Art Miami 2001
2001 ArtSpace/Virginia Miller Gallery, Miami, FL
2001 Center of the Earth Gallery, Charlotte, NC
2001 “New Works by Roberto Azank,” Eleonore Austerer Gallery, San Francisco, CA (solo)
2001 Eleonore Austerer Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2001 Gomez Gallery, Baltimore, MD
2001 Bachelier-Cardonsky Gallery, Kent, CT
2001 AusterergCrider Gallery, Palm Springs, CA
2001 Eleonore Austerer Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2001 Gomez Gallery, Baltimore, MD
2001 Bachelier - Cardonsky Gallery, Kent, CT
2000 “New Gallery Artist Exhibition,” Eleonore Austerer Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2000 Brewster Arts Limited, New York, Art Miami 2000
2000 ArtSpace/Virginia Miller Gallery, Miami, FL
2000 Foster/White Gallery, Seattle, WA
2000 Byron Cohen Gallery, Kansas City, MO
2000 Byron Cohen Gallery, Kansas City, KS
1999 Addison - Rippley Gallery, Washington, DC
1999 Brewster Arts LTD NYC
1999 Addison/Ripley Gallery Washington, DC
1999 Still, Kougeas Gallery Boston, MA
1999 Major Works, Brewster Arts Ltd. NYC
1998 Meredith-Kelly Fine Arts Santa Fe, New Mexico
1998 Mulligan-Shanoski Gallery San Francisco, California
1998 Lizan Tops Gallery, East Hampton, NY
1998 Albers Fine Art Gallery, Memphis, TN
1998 Hooks-Epstein Galleries Houston, Texas
1998 Albert White Gallery Toronoto, Canada
1997 Consulate General of Argentina NYC
1997 Gallery @ 425 Lexington, New York, NY
1997 Ramis Barquet Gallery Miami
1993 Art & Mathematics Conference AM '93 SUNY Albany, NY
1991 Marcos J. Alegria School of Fine Arts Puerto Rico

Literature
2003 Essay by Lee Klein, “When the Subject is also an Object (Conversations/Solitaire)”, February
2002 LizetteWilson, “Viewing Art with an Eye towards Capital Growth” San Francisco Business Times, September 27
2002 Mala Hoffman, “Personally Speaking” Woodstock-New Paltz Times, August 22
2002 Chronogram, “On the Cover” July
2001 Review by Jean McKig, The Desert Sun, December
1999 Armando Alvarez-Bravo, Big Names in the Summer,The Miami Herald (El Nuevo Herald), August
1999 Dr. Ronald Vigo, Cypherism and the Metaclassical Style of Roberto Azank, Brewster Arts Ltd., March
1999 Wall Street Journal, “Inside Art – Trendsetters – Creating the Next Direction”, Cypherism and the Age of Computation", New York, August
1999 Gables Gallery exhibits Latin American Jewels, Coral Gables Gazette, July 28th
1999 Lee Klein, An Appreciation, Night Magazine, June
1999 Michael O'Sullivan, Roberto Azank, The Washington Post, March 26
1999 Michael Carter, Disegno e Colore, Night Magazine, March
1998 Isabel LaDuca, Disegno e Colore, Easton Irregular, October
1998 Alice Thorson, Roberto Azank, Kansas City Star
1998 Lee Klein, Art Miami '98, New York Arts Magazine, February
1998 New American Paintings, February
1997 Noticias de Arte, Consulate of Argentina, Fall
1997 Frances Chapman, Objectification, Waterfront Week, May
Palm Springs Life , “Where to see Roberto Azank” by Steven Biller
Who's Who in American Art, 1999-2000 Edition
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