My wife, Lynn Hanson, and I had a concurrent art show at the Santa Paula Art Museum, in Santa Paula, California . Over a 125 pieces of art representing 30 years of work.
The theme of John Robertson’s narrative is creating a biography through art. John Robertson’s biography visual chronicle created with unique, individual pieces representing different aspects of his life. Although some of the work is very personal they do represent universal themes.
Over the years I have created a lot of personal work that has never been shown and few people have even seen many of the individual pieces. Some of the work was dimensional wall pieces, others were free standing assemblages for pedestals and some are paintings. Because of the nature of the main gallery it provided a more intimate space to show this kind of personal work. In one sense it was a hodgepodge of things but it did represent me. I presented the artwork in the gallery as a biography – but not necessarily a timeline. It was not a survey of my artwork. As I said above: it was more a visual biography created with unique, individual pieces representing different aspects of my life. Although some of the work is very personal they are about universal themes.