About
I discovered at a young age that when I immerse myself in a subject, unexpected truths emerge. They reveal themselves. This process is driven by pattern recognition, playfulness, and a sense that something greater than myself is at work. This process can produce euphoric revelations - the fuel that drives my art.
I worked for many years as a fine art silkscreen printer, which taught me discipline and forced me out of my comfort zone to solve problems on unfamiliar terrain. I gained skill sets I did not anticipate, and those skills continue to shape how I work.
As a printmaker, I got to collaborate with visionary artist Paul Laffoley, who exposed me to a whole universe of esoteric craziness. His encyclopedic knowledge of art, architecture, engineering, philosophy, fringe science, and the occult was an incredible inspiration to me.
My current series, Psychotronic Flowers, consists of radionic devices combining painting, printmaking, laser-cut structures, and embedded objects on wooden panels.
The idea is that you, the viewer, power the Psychotronic Flowers. They work on a similar principle to a Ouija board or tarot deck: it is your energy that activates them. The series now explores alchemical revelation.
I turn 70 this year. That reality, and the life I have built with my wife Eileen, have freed me to focus on making art that is relevant, meaningful, and joyous.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2018 — Question Everything, Detour Gallery, Red Bank, NJ
2015 — Tarot, Galerie Protégé, New York, NY
2014 — Illuminaughty, Project Studios, Hoboken, NJ
2014 — Just Looking, Drawing Rooms, Jersey City, NJ
2013 — Princesses & Patsies, Proto Gallery, Hoboken, NJ
2013 — 7 Deadly Sins, Arlene’s Grocery, New York, NY
2009 — Native American Portraits, Phillips Exeter Academy, Exeter, NH
2008 — The Lincoln Conspiracy, 111 Water Street Gallery, Exeter, NH
2008 — The Lincoln Conspiracy, Lawrence Academy, Groton, MA
2006 — Pigs, Loaf and Ladle, Exeter, NH
2005 — Disasters, the Ten Most Wanted — 7 Deadly Sins, Club Purgatory, Cincinnati, OH
2004 — Pigs, Gelb Art Gallery, Phillips Academy, Andover, MA
2002 — Through My Father’s Eyes, Lawrence Heritage State Park, Lawrence, MA
2001 — Through My Father’s Eyes & Portraits of Lawrence, Millart Gallery, Lawrence, MA
SELECTED GROUP & TWO-PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2026 — Psychotronic Flowers, River Tree Arts, Kennebunk, ME
2021–2026 — OAA Expressions, Barn Gallery, Ogunquit, ME
2019 — Artsfest 2019, South Amboy Arts Alliance, South Amboy, NJ
2018 — Group Show, Portland Art Gallery, Portland, ME
2017 — Bloom, Parlor Gallery, Asbury Park, NJ
2015 — 60 Americans, Elga Wimmer PPC, New York, NY
2015 — Cartoonism Volume 2, Gallery 58, Jersey City, NJ
2015 — Cartoonism, Gallery 58, Jersey City, NJ
2015 — Art Project @ The Art House, Art House, Jersey City, NJ
2014 — The Big Small Show, Drawing Rooms, Jersey City, NJ
2014 — Art Project @ The Art House, Art House, Jersey City, NJ
2014 — Paranoia, Mind Control and the Art of Suggestion, Wonka Gallery, San Diego, CA
2014 — Monsters, Galerie Protégé, New York, NY
2014 — Lone Nuts, Pancakes & Booze Art Show, New York, NY
2011 — Turtle Salon, Galerie Arnaud Lefebvre, Paris, France
2010 — Unaffordable Art Fair, New York Studio Gallery, New York, NY
2009 — Art Blast, two-person exhibition, Portsmouth Museum of Fine Art, Portsmouth, NH
2009 — Black Pop Surrealism, Shore Institute of Contemporary Art, Long Branch, NJ
2004 — Double Feature, Lamont Gallery, Phillips Exeter Academy, Exeter, NH
2004 — 32 Degrees, George Marshall Store Gallery, York, ME
2004 — Summer Art Faculty Show, Lamont Gallery, Phillips Exeter Academy, Exeter, NH
2003 — Violence Show, Wild Seduction Gallery, Miami, FL
2003 — Juried Art Show, Essex Art Center, Lawrence, MA — Award Winner, juried by Jock Reynolds
2000 — Disaster Show, with Charles Krafft, Roq La Rue Gallery, Seattle, WA
2000 — True Grit, with Tara Misenheimer, Firehouse Gallery, Newburyport, MA
1988 — Visions of Death, with Paul Laffoley, Oasis Gallery, Boston, MA
Press:
Artist Talk - Detour Gallery - March 2018
Altered Reality: Industry Magazine 3/22/2018
LES Is a-Changin’: Controversial Artworks Canned at Arlene’s Grocery - Hyperallergic.com - 6/12/2013
Artist Robert Preston's Native American Portraits
Disaster (Averted)! Three Shows Successfully Take on Cataclysm
Robert Preston’s Cover Illustration For Caught in the Crossfire