05/09/2026
Artist Highlight: Robert Sagerman
Edifice, Fount, Rippling Spaces brings together a new body of work by painter Robert Sagerman, whose practice merges rigorous process with meditative inquiry. Sagerman’s paintings emerge from a disciplined studio ritual that transforms the act of painting into a sustained state of contemplation. Built through thousands—often tens of thousands—of palette-knife strokes, each work develops slowly as densely layered impasto accumulates across the canvas. The surfaces are so physically rich that Sagerman hand-mills his own oil paints from elemental pigments, allowing for precise control over color, material, and structure.
Now on view at Cris Worley Fine Arts, Edifice, Fount, Rippling Spaces marks Sagerman’s fifth solo exhibition with the gallery and presents a new body of work exploring structure, perception, and attentive presence.
Each painting is built through an intensive and methodical process, with Sagerman carefully documenting every pigment used and every stroke applied. The final stroke count becomes the title of the work itself — linking the painting’s physical construction directly to its conceptual identity.
Drawing from Kabbalist thought and ritualized studio practice, Sagerman’s paintings invite viewers into immersive fields of color, texture, and contemplation.
On view through May 30.
