Chateau: painted found objects and canvas

I found these cardboard packing sheets in my office building, where a crew was replacing all the old fluorescent bulbs with new energy efficient bulbs. The new bulbs came packed in these 1" deep, textured cardboard dividers. I was attracted to their architectural elements and thought at first of cathedral doors/windows. That may be project #2. But for now, I see a tall, thin chateau in rural France. What do you see?

Jeff Roberts
Chateau, 2015

 Original mixed media assemblage: painted found cardboard objects, painted balsa wood, spray paint on canvas

 24" x 36"
Signed on the back
Wired, & ready to hang

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Jeff on TV - Write Now with Gayle Heney

I’m pleased to announce that the episode of Gayle Heney’s Write Now featuring yours truly will air on the following cable systems on the following dates and times. The shows are also available as live streams from the stations’ web sites at on the same dates and times as the broadcasts. Gayle and I discuss my latest “book” – a promotional 2015 calendar using pictures of my artwork. And I respond to an unusual challenge, to produce an original assemblage piece on air. I get Gayle to pitch in.  Enjoy!  -Jeff

North Andover, 11/21/14 – 12/20, on Comcast channel 22 and Verizon channel 24  

Fridays @ 11 am and 1:30 am,

Tuesdays @ 8 pm, and

Saturdays @ 8 pm

Live Stream: (use the “Watch Live” button) http://www.northandovercam.org/our-channels/cam-ed/schedule/

Andover, 11/18 - 12/18, on Comcast channel 8 and Verizon channel 47

Tuesdays @ 10 am

 Thursdays @ 10 am and

Mondays @ 8 pm

Live Stream: http://andovertv.org/livestreams

Methuen, 11/18 – 12/17, on Comcast channel 22 and Verizon channel 33

Tuesday @ 8:30 pm

Wed @ 9:30 am

Live Stream: http://www.methuentv.org/live.php

 Write Now with Gayle Heney

Assemblage Art, Collage, Box Construction, 3D, Mixed Media, Found Objects, Eva Hesse

Original assemblage "poem object." Homage to Eva Hesse.

Eva, 2014

Tin box with window, 6 glass-topped tin jars, painted felt pads, wooden disks, painted paper, cut 35mm slide film of Eva Hesse works, rhinestones, painted costume pearls. Pearls are loose and rotate around the cut film inside each glass-topped tin. They make a lovely whirring sound as they spin around. Transparent image of Eva with Repetition Nineteen affixed to the bottom of the can

5 1/2" x 3 3/4" x 1"
Edition of 1. Signed on a paper tag on the back of the tin case.

https://www.etsy.com/listing/208563552/assemblage-art-collage-box-construction?ref=shop_home_active_1


Created live during an episode of Write Now with Gayle C. Heney at Haverhill Community Television on Saturday, Oct. 25th, 204. I'm a little jazzed to have met the challenge she set for me for this show. We discussed a 2015 calendar I published as a promotional give-away featuring 12 of my artworks. As part of the show, Gayle asked me to create a new "poem object" (3D assemblage piece) in real time. Over the previous few weeks I had to solve the problem of first birthing an idea for a new piece and then prepping the object elements so that I could complete it, in studio, in the 4-5 minutes allotted for this segment. I decided to do a small homage to Eva Hesse using a metal can with a plastic window used to hold 6 small tins of gourmet salt.

Thanks Gayle!

Pics above show the finished work and a few in the earlier stages of development.

Cheers! -Jeff

Assemblage Art, Collage Art, Mixed Media on Canvas, Photography, 3D, Found Objects, Annabella Sciorra

Title: Blue Mantle
Year: 2014

Description:
Original mixed media assemblage / painting, spray paint and collage elements on stretched canvas, original digital images, painted wood. Urethane sealer. Edition of 1. Signed on the back. Edge-wrapped and ready to hang.

Size: 16" x 20" x 1 1/2"

Homage to Annabella Sciorra (as well as to smoking - and how much I miss it).

See the complete listing in the Artflit Shop on Etsy.com

Assemblage art, collage art, box construction, mixed media, 3D, found objects, Spellbound, Ingrid Bergman

Title: Spellbound
Year: 2014

Description:
Mixed media assemblage: pine "book" style box, wood discs, wood spools, spray paint, digital images, brass .22 caliber cartridges, mat board, felt pads. Edition of one. Signed on the bottom. Tribute to Ingrid Bergman, Alfred Hitchcock, and Salvador Dali.

Interactive. Interchangeable pieces. The 22 shells are attached to the bottom of the picture discs, and they slip into the hole in the spools. You can rearrange them to suit yourself and change on a whim. Be part of the art!

Size: 7" x 5 1/2" x 2"

See complete listing at artflit.com

Assemblage art, collage art, box construction, mixed media, 3D, found objects, Oh, Roberto!

Title: Oh, Roberto!

Year: 2014

Description:
Mixed media assemblage: pine "book" style box, wood discs, wood spools, spray paint, digital images, brass .22 caliber cartridges, mat board. Edition of one. Signed on the bottom. Tribute to Roberto Rossellini: Ingrd Bergman, Isabella Fiorella Elettra Giovanna Rossellini, and Elettra Rossellini Wiedemann.

Interactive. Interchangeable pieces. The 22 shells are attached to the bottom of the picture discs, and they slip into the hole in the spools. You can rearrange them to suit yourself and change on a whim. Be part of the art!

Size: 7" x 5 1/2" x 2"

See complete listing at artflit.com

Fine Art Photography - Vermont Wood Pile - Jeff Roberts

Vermont Wood Pile, 2014. Archival ink jet print from original digital photograph. Edition of 10 plus one AP. Image size: 5" x 11". Mounted on mat board and on a painted wood panel. Signed on the back.

See more at the Artflit Shop at etsy.com