Black Cherry Objects

Channeling my inner Cornell. These are commercially-produced black cherry pencil holders intended to accept a 4" x 4" ceramic tile for craft projects. I picked them up from the clearance bin at an online crafts site. I've corrupted them into aesthetic toys for my own amusement and maybe for others' someday. Various original digital images in the recessed spaces meant for tiles, plastic bead jars and buttons attached to vintage pokerchips to create plugs and clear compartments that will slide into the holes made for pencils, and misc. found objects (little surprises). inside. Each is 5 1/4" x 5 1/4" x 1 3/4".

Untitled (Button Object)

Mixed media poem object: black cherry pencil holder, original digital images, bead jars, vintage poker chips, vintage coat buttons.

5 1/4" x 5 1/4" x 1 3/4"
Edition of 1.
Signed on the bottom.

Tabletop Paintings: Surface #13, Vers. 2

Surface #13, Vers. 2.
Mixed media: original photograph with over-painting and sealed with urethane. 8" x 10"  One of a kind (1/1). Signed on the back.

Tabletop Paintings: Surface 13, Vers. 1

Surface #13, vers. 1, 2012. Mixed media: original photograph with over-painting on Ampersand panel and sealed with urethane. 8" x 10". One of a kind (1/1). Signed on the back.

Jeff Roberts - Open Studio - Nov. 24 & 25, 2012

Reminder: Jeff Roberts Open Studio. Saturday and Sunday, Nov. 24 & 25, 12-5 PM. Original Art Direct from the Artist. 618 Chickering Rd (garage entrance), North Andover, MA. 978-257-0898

Bo-K Poem Object

Bo-K Poem Object, 2012. Mixed media assemblage: painted  K-Cup display rack, empty K-Cups, pipe cleaners, original digital images, rhinestones. Approx. 8" dia. 11" high.  Never needs watering!

Surface #5, Version 3

Mixed media Poem Object: cherry ring box, original digital image mounted on mat, reversible coin object with digital images and collage elemets. 2012. Approx. 1 1/2" x 1 1/2" x 1 1/2"

Spool & Shell Poem Object

Mixed media poem object from 2012: painted wooden spool, misc. painted wood shapes, found oyster shell, rubber band. 3 1/2" dia. x 4 1/2" high.

Surface #5, Version 1

Original digital image with collage elements, mounted on mat board and framed in an 8" x 8" cherry tile frame.

Surface #4 - Version 4

Original digital image on mat board in painted bamboo box. 6" x 9" x 2.5"

International Collage Happening

Collage Update: I'm proud to announce that a collage of mine has been included in Joel Lambeth's 2012 To the Power of N: When N Equals 12 project: an international collage happening in which 12 artists are selected, provided exact same packets of source materials and then create 12 unique original collages. The background and resulting collages have been posted here:
 http://tothepowerofn.joellambeth.com/?p=965

Untitled (Fog Dwellers)

Untitled (Fog Dwellers), 2012
Mixed media assemblage: bamboo cutlery tray, digital images, plumbing fittings, poker chips, glass jars, pewter chain.
10" x 14" x 2"
Edition of 1.
Signed on the back.

Untitled (Water & Stone)

Untitled (Water & Stone), 2012
Mixed media assemblage: bamboo cutlery tray, digital images, glass jars with corks, silver chain, painted wood beads.
10" x 14" x 2"
Edition of 1.
Signed on the back.

Untitled (Cattails)

Untitled, 2012
Mixed media assemblage: bamboo cutlery tray, digital images, dried cattail, poker chips, misc plumbing parts, vintage film spool, swivel pen holders.
10" x 14" x 2"
Edition of 1.
Signed on the back.

Purple #1

Artist: Jeff Roberts
Title: Purple #1
Year: 2012
Medium: Mixed media, spray paint and urethane on photo paper, painted plastic button
Size: 4" x 6"

Red #1

Artist: Jeff Roberts
Title: Red #1
Year: 2012
Medium: Mixed media, spray paint and urethane on photo paper, painted plastic button
Size: 4" x 6"

Black #1

Artist: Jeff Roberts
Title: Black #1
Year: 2012
Medium: Mixed media, spray paint on glass, wood, rubber o-ring, painted plastic buttons
Size: 8" x 8"

Signal

Artist: Jeff Roberts
Tite: Signal
Year: 2012
Medium: Mixed media assemblage, painted box, glass panes, wood, digital images
Size: 12" x 10" x 2"

Exhibited at the Gafney Library Benefit, August, 2012.

Creation Story (VII)

Jeff Roberts
Creation Story (VII), 2012
Digital image and spray paint on photo paper
4 x 6"

The First Poem

Jeff Roberts
The First Poem, 2012
Spray paint on photo paper
12 x 16"

Jeff Roberts Showing at Art & Frame Source Gallery

Picture of display at Art & Frame Source, 1097 Osgood Street, North Andover, MA 01845. 978-975-7318.

There are 4 pieces on display through July 2012: Untitled (box assemblage), Band of Sage (mixed media on glass), Séance (mixed media on glass), and Red Hat (painted salt spoon and tile on glass - not shown).

Say, "Hi" and Thanks" to Owner/Proprietor Danny Chang - a friend and master framer/colorist.

Jeff Roberts - Séance

Original mixed media assemblage: spray paint on glass, painted wood, glass beads.
5 x 7"
Signed in pencil on the back.

Jeff Roberts Now Showing at Sisters We Three Gallery

View of the display at Sisters We Three Gallery, 57 Pleasant Street, Newburyport, Mass. Sisters has around 30 pieces ($25-$150), old and new, and will rotate the stock and the location in the store. If you're in the area, stop in and ask to see the Jeff Roberts work!  Thanks, -Jeff

Salt Spoon Series

Trophies, 2012
Mixed media assemblage: painted wooden salt spoons, painted wooden beads, rubber bands on spray-painted glass
4 x 6 "
Signed in pencil on the back.

Band of Gray

First in a series of planetscapes

Band of Gray, 2012
Original mixed media collage: digital images, spray paint, felt pads
4 x 6"
Signed in pencil on the back.

Zappa Tribute
Original mixed media assemblage: spray paint on glass, wooden disc, hand-made glass beads, felt pads, pins, digital image
6 x 8" image in 8 x 10" frame
Edition of 1
Signed in pencil

http://www.etsy.com/listing/98067097/cosmic-windmills

Roberts' Artwork At Sisters We Three Gallery in Newburyport, MA

Starting May 4th, 2012 You'll be able to view and purchase some of my original artwork at the Sisters We Three Gallery at 57 Pleasant Street, Newburyport, MA, 01950. 978-462-4500. Pleasant Street is the main drag one block up from the water, right at the southern edge of the municipal parking lot.

http://www.sisterswethree.com

http://www.yelp.com/biz/sisters-we-three-newburyport

Gafney Library Show - Rochester Times (NH) April 5, 2012

Wonderful reception at the library on April 14th, with about 25 visitors.

Gafney Library Art Exhibit Features Jeff Roberts

Press Release
For Immediate Release
Date: March 31, 2012
Contact: Berrie Donovan, 603-522-3401

Subject: Art reception and exhibit at Gafney Library

Wakefield – “A one of a kind art show; a collection of ingenious assemblage created using fine images, found objects and a collection of nuts, bolts, pins and needles,” is how Exhibit Coordinator Peter Abate describes the latest art exhibit at the Gafney Library in Sanbornville. The exhibit features the work of North Andover, MA artist Jeff Roberts and is titled “Poem Objects: Assemblage, Collage & Boxes -2012.”

The sixty six pieces include small free-form objects and box constructions using current pop iconography, and a number of thematically related collage works made from digital prints, cut paper and mat board, and a variety of found objects ranging from plastic storage containers to painted wooden blocks and colored pinheads. Each piece is delivered as a poem might be: with its own metaphor and rhythm and imagery. Individual works include “Black Moon, 2011” constructed of digital prints, pins, and a rubber pad on a wooden coaster, and “El Condor Pasa, 2011” comprised of a bamboo box, digital prints, a wooden cube, dowels and a nail. Jeff notes his belief that “any form of art is only successful if the work turns a common item or idea into an uncommon one – creating not only the poem or poem-object, but some form of emotional power chord; or sometimes just the sense, or possibility of that kind of alchemy.”

Jeff, who is a Pushcart Prize nominated poet has been producing interesting assemblage and collage art for a few years now and probably comes by it naturally. His grandmother Dorothy Cowles Pinkney was a well-respected poet in the 30s and 40s and his father Richard “Dick” Roberts was an artist and sculptor and Curator at the Stamford Museum in Stamford, Connecticut in the 50s and 60s. Jeff’s work is inspired and informed by the masters of assemblage - Cornell, Nevelson, Westermann, Duchamp, Schwitters, and countless others.

“The original spark between artist, art, and audience is as whimsical and unpredictable as it is between humans,” says Roberts. He continues, “Who knows why we are initially attracted to a piece of art. As with people, the first reaction is usually to some physical feature: form, color, subject, etc. Something either affects us or it doesn’t and that is perfectly acceptable. We explore. We discover. We winnow. A work of art needs to hit us somehow. It's what drives artists to create and art collectors to buy.”

Jeff is a member of The International Society of Assemblage and Collage Artists, The Academy of American Poets, and the New England Poetry Club. His first book of poems, Chatter in the Canopy, was published in 2009 and is available from Etsy and Amazon. His poems have appeared in The Aurorean, Meanie Magazine, Recursive Angel, 15 Credibility Street, The Hudson Street Review, The Pictish League, and Blood Pudding Press. His poem Her Unusual Journey won first place in the annual Lawrence (Massachusetts) Eagle-Tribune Poetry Contest (1999). Beach Glass, which first appeared in the Aurorean (Farmington, ME), was nominated for a Pushcart Prize in 2009. This is his first exhibition of art work.

Roberts invites one and all to a reception celebrating his work on Saturday April 14th from 11:30 to 1:30 p.m. The exhibit may be seen during open library hours for the month of April. Open hours are Tuesday and Thursday 1-7:30 p.m.; Wednesday and Friday 10-noon and Saturday 9-2. For more information call library director Beryl Donovan at 603.522.3401.

Assemblage and Collage Show - Jeff Roberts

Exhibition of assemblage art, box constructions, and collages (poem objects) by Jeff Roberts. April 1-30, 2012. Gafney Library, 14 High Street, Sanbornville (Wakefield), NH 03872. Artist's reception: Saturday, April 14th, 2012 from 11:30 AM to 1:30 PM at the Gafney Library. Please join me if you're in the area. -Jeff

Postulate IV

Jeff Roberts

Postualte IV, 2012

Mixed media assemblage: digital print background, cut digital prints, wood, painted and cut paper

8 x 10 inches

Edition of 1.

Signed and dated by the artist in pencil on the back

Jeff Roberts - Poem Objects: Assemblage, Collage & Boxes

Exhibition of assemblage art, box constructions, and collages (poem objects) by Jeff Roberts. April 1-30, 2012. Gafney Library, 14 High Street, Sanbornville (Wakefield), NH 03872. Artist's reception: Saturday, April 14th, 2012 from 11:30 AM to 1:30 PM at the Gafney Library. Please join me if you're in the area. -Jeff

The International Society of Assemblage and Collage Artists - ISACA

Visit The International Society of Assemblage and Collage Artists

Jonathan Talbot, Tidewater Nights and Wash Day Etchings

Tidewater Nights
Etching: 31/150
Image: 5.5" x 17.5"
Paper: 8.5" x 21"

Wash Day
Etching: 41/150
Image: 5.5" x 17"
Paper: 10.5" x 22"

Jonathan Talbot, Trees 4

Artist: Jonathan Talbot
Title: Trees 4
Year: 1974
Medium: Wood Engraving
Approx. Dim 5.5 x 6 inches

John Mark Sager, Macchina Muscia #1

Artist: John Mark Sager
Title: Macchina Muscia #1
Year: 1995
Medium Assemblage: wooden drawer, piano hammers, bell, dowels, metal fittings
Approx. Dim 18 x 20 x 5 inches
Provenance/Notes: Purchased from New Braunfels Auction Co. New Braunfels TX, Dec 2008. Verified by the artist Jan 2009.Work was slightly damaged when purchased. Restored by Chris Holmes of Somerville MA from a color slide provided by the artist.