Robert Standish: New Terrains

Robert Standish is an American painter living and working in Los Angeles whose distinctive organic abstract paintings reveal wondrous and uplifting emotive effects of bright color, bold gesture, and texture. A renowned former photorealist painter, Standish became inspired by the spontaneity of Abstract Expressionism, the transcendence of Abstract Spiritualism, and the nuances and power of pure color in Color Field Painting, and has focused solely on abstraction ever since.

His artworks can be found in the permanent collections of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, JP MORGAN CHASE, Weisman Foundation, Lancaster Museum of Art and History, Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art, Crocker Art Museum, Laguna Art Museum, Louis K. Meisel, Larry and Marilyn Fields, Patricia Arquette, Norwest Venture Partners, and BRYANT/ STIBEL, along with numerous other acclaimed collections.

Standish's paintings have been exhibited internationally in galleries and museums, including a solo show at the Museum of Art and History, Lancaster and group shows at the Hammer Museum, Carnegie Art Museum, Frederick R. Weisman Museum of Art, Laguna Art Museum, and a duo show with Sam Francis at Martin Lawrence gallery.