"Persons of Interest" is the NW Collage Society's Fall juried show of members' work.
Together Center
16305 NE 87th St, Ste 110 Redmond, WA
Robert Hardgrave was born in Oxnard, California. He has made a significant contribution to visual arts in the Pacific Northwest for the past 35 years. Hardgrave has exhibited in numerous solo and group shows in Seattle, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Denver, Chicago, New York, and Madrid, Spain. Locally, Robert is represented by AmCE Creative arts and his work is in the permanent collections of Microsoft, Starbucks, King County and the Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts. Robert recently had a sculpture juried into an exhibit at the Northwest Museum in La Connor. Later this year Robert will be exhibiting in a duo exhibit at AmCE Creative arts.
Artist Statement
I am interested in sustainable creative systems. I use a variety of media,(systems), to make things and find that exploration within separate systems feeds my work in the invention of ideas and modes of consideration in other systems. I believe materials guide the work toward what it is going to be allowing me the confidence to trust my inclinations and flow. Content follows process where the action of making reveals feelings and notions which can be read similar to a dream. I attempt to make work which is suggestive yet maintains mystery.
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