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Robischon Gallery Museum-level contemporary art exhibitions of regional, national and international artists since 1976

Since its inception in 1976, Robischon Gallery has been producing museum-level contemporary art exhibitions of regional, national, and international artists. Embracing the current pluralism in art, the exhibitions and artists represented purposefully address a continuum of stylistic and contextual concerns, allowing for a diverse range of voices. Robischon Gallery’s expansive exhibition program maintains a commitment to burgeoning and mid-career artists of integrity and vision both regionally and nationally while broadening its list of historically significant artists to include Kiki Smith, Richard Serra, Manuel Neri, and Christo, among others. Robischon Gallery’s represented artists of influence such as Judy Pfaff, Ann Hamilton, Enrique MartΓ­nez Celaya, John Buck, and Bernar Venet reaffirm the gallery’s vision to foster thought-provoking and dynamic progressions in contemporary art. Robischon Gallery’s thematically driven exhibitions are scheduled seven times per year, with each exhibition typically composed of two to three concurrent solo exhibitions and one featured group presentation. The gallery’s annual programming supports up to twenty solo exhibitions within its 9,000 square-foot space. Painting, sculpture, drawing, photography, prints, video, and installation are regularly presented by those established and emerging artists who are engaged in a variety of art-making practices. The robust artist list reflects the many diverse relationships throughout Robischon Gallery’s nearly 45 years in operation, including the names of currently represented and affiliated artists, as well as those artists who have been primarily associated with the gallery through its exhibition program. The gallery has long been recognized for premiering important artists and exhibiting challenging forms of creative expression over the last four-plus decades, as it continues to set bold new standards for contemporary art in the Mountain States region.

Over the last ten years I have been developing a visual language that grew from a studio practice that employed collage,...
10/09/2026

Over the last ten years I have been developing a visual language that grew from a studio practice that employed collage, paint transfer and a methodical construction of images built on a foundation of castoffs and off-cuts from previous work. From that language and the processes through which it was expressed, I found myself returning time and again to the oroboros-like relationship between experience, memory, and the self.”
β€” David Hytone

Currently exhibiting at Robischon Gallery in his solo exhibition π‘‡β„Žπ‘’ π‘‚π‘‘β„Žπ‘’π‘Ÿ 𝐸𝑛𝑑 π‘œπ‘“ π‘‘β„Žπ‘’ π‘‡π‘’π‘™π‘’π‘ π‘π‘œπ‘π‘’, the work of imaginative artist David Hytone is also on view at Washington’s Tacoma Art Museum in his site-specific installation, π‘‡β„Žπ‘’ 𝐿𝑒𝑒 π‘†β„Žπ‘œπ‘Ÿπ‘’. Extending his distinctive visual language beyond the painted surface, Hytone combines paintings with sculptural elements, ballasts, and mechanisms, exploring the intersections of memory, surreality, and cultural nostalgia.

Hytone’s work considers the self as an accumulation of disparate experiences, memories, and identities. His paintings, often constructed from hundreds of individually painted and collaged elements, bring familiar objects into unexpected relationships, occupying a space between recognition and the inexplicable. These carefully assembled compositions reflect a world in which connection and isolation coexist, and meaning remains ever unsettled.

Through unexpected juxtapositions, playful distortions of scale, and an idiosyncratic approach toward presentation, familiar objects become vessels for personal and collective associations. Humor and absurdity also coexist, allowing for a contemplative inquiry into preserved histories and the narratives constructed around them.

Enjoy this brief glimpse into Hytone’s two dynamic solo presentations: π‘‡β„Žπ‘’ 𝐿𝑒𝑒 π‘†β„Žπ‘œπ‘Ÿπ‘’ at Tacoma Art Museum, on view through January 3, 2027, and works from Robischon Gallery’s solo exhibition, π‘‡β„Žπ‘’ π‘‚π‘‘β„Žπ‘’π‘Ÿ 𝐸𝑛𝑑 π‘œπ‘“ π‘‘β„Žπ‘’ π‘‡π‘’π‘™π‘’π‘ π‘π‘œπ‘π‘’, on view through October 31, 2026.

Images 1–4: π‘‡β„Žπ‘’ 𝐿𝑒𝑒 π‘†β„Žπ‘œπ‘Ÿπ‘’, Tacoma Art Museum; images 5–9: π‘‡β„Žπ‘’ π‘‚π‘‘β„Žπ‘’π‘Ÿ 𝐸𝑛𝑑 π‘œπ‘“ π‘‘β„Žπ‘’ π‘‡π‘’π‘™π‘’π‘ π‘π‘œπ‘π‘’, Robischon Gallery.

β€œMy work goes back to my early interest in trying to find a middle ground β€” between chance and structure, the organic an...
10/07/2026

β€œMy work goes back to my early interest in trying to find a middle ground β€” between chance and structure, the organic and the human-fabricated, the attempt to find order, and recognizing that chaos happens when you try to make rules. There is the beauty of nature, and the brutality of it. There is the universe, and I am just a person, working in my studio, making a little dot and using a tiny brush.”
β€” Barbara Takenaga

In an expansive exhibition of the many extraordinary investigations into abstraction that have shaped Barbara Takenaga’s singular career, the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art presents the artist’s first comprehensive survey in nearly a decade, opening Friday, October 9th, in Kansas City.

The extensive presentation, π΅π‘Žπ‘Ÿπ‘π‘Žπ‘Ÿπ‘Ž π‘‡π‘Žπ‘˜π‘’π‘›π‘Žπ‘”π‘Ž: π΄π‘€π‘’π‘ π‘‘π‘Ÿπ‘’π‘π‘˜, brings together an array of mesmerizing paintings made over the past 25 years. The artist's visual exploration of dynamic, intricate worlds - seemingly microscopic and infinite, combines meticulous detail with fluid pours of paint; a dedicated compositional practice which masterfully evolved over many decades.

The exhibition description states; β€œTakenaga reminds us that painting is a discipline shaped by both action and chance. So, too, is looking and perceiving: we make the work through our active gaze.”

Takenaga’s work is explored by Kemper’s π΄π‘€π‘’π‘ π‘‘π‘Ÿπ‘’π‘π‘˜ through four thematic sections: an emphasis on process, bold contrasts of scale, an embrace of illusion, and reverent nods to art history. In combination, the viewer is offered myriad paths of engagement; delving into Takenaga's intermixed, interlocking forms, her skillfully improvisational compositions and her far-ranging, charged palette, explosive and dazzling to the eye.

This remarkable exhibition, on view through April 11th, was recently featured in Hyperallergic in an insightful interview of Takenaga by Jennifer Samet; available at Hyperallergic.com

Images: 1) Barbara Takenaga, photo by Jennifer Samet, 2) β€œRed Yellow Swoop,” acrylic on wood, 40 x 30 in., 3-8) Takenaga works shown at Robischon Gallery, 9) Barbara Takenaga, 10) Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art

β€œIn my work, I like the ambitious nature of what’s happening, whether it’s something being built or something that has f...
10/03/2026

β€œIn my work, I like the ambitious nature of what’s happening, whether it’s something being built or something that has failed in the form of a train wreck. Paintings coming from both big, ambitious projects and overreaching ideas. I like my work to reflect that large-scale idea even if they are small in scale.”
β€” Stephen Batura

The startling imagery, grand-scale and sophisticated mark of Stephen Batura's paintings are currently on view in 𝑆𝑑𝑖𝑙𝑙 π‘ƒπ‘œπ‘–π‘›π‘‘, the artist's solo exhibition at Robischon Gallery.

Known for myriad series, and varied and often abstracted subject matter, Batura is best known for his distinct ability to conjure a dreamlike, evocative, yet recognizable vision of the American West. Drawing on the vernacular of early 20th-century photography, his highly painterly works move between monumental, monochromatic scenes and intimate, vivid paintings, creating a remarkably striking contrast. Through nuanced brushwork and compositional restraint, Batura transforms archival imagery into compelling and expansive meditations on universal human endeavor.

The artist's works on view explore the varied rhythms of lifeβ€”from depictions of recognizable historic scenes, such as early automobiles on Denver's Alameda Avenue, to unexpected and catastrophic aftermaths of floods or train wrecks in the West. Whether Batura's subject matter leans toward either destruction or construction, or moments suspended between the two, his potently poetic works simultaneously reflect the scale of human ambition and humanity's inherent fragility.

Images: 1) Stephen Batura, 2) β€œnineteen-twenty-one,” casein on panel, 96 x 145.5 in, 3-4) β€œperch,” acrylic on panel, 24 x 36 in, 5-6) β€œforty-one,” casein on panel, 96 x 144 in.

In celebration of esteemed artist Linda Fleming’s birthday, the gallery takes a moment to acknowledge her remarkable wor...
10/01/2026

In celebration of esteemed artist Linda Fleming’s birthday, the gallery takes a moment to acknowledge her remarkable work.Β Β Highly regarded for her dynamic, free-standing, large-scale outdoor works and evanescent, light-responsive, or painted wall sculptures, Fleming’s distinct visual language and extensive study of the natural world continues to unfold with each new exploration of form, surface, and impactful, vibrant color.

The genesis of each sculpture begins with a drawing. Many are explored in impressive scale in an ongoing series - further manifesting Fleming’s exuberant use of line, color and pattern. This in-depth investigation, along with the artist’s sculptural models, greatly expands the possibilities of her large scale sculpture with a singular vitality. Enjoy these images of Fleming at the site of her comprehensive retrospective exhibition at Kaneko Art Center, followed by β€œWayfinder,”  her 2024 permanent monumental installation, bathed in pink light in its Hawaiian location. These and other select images provide just a glimpse of this superlative artist’s unique and resonant mark.

β€œMy works are my best attempt to use the physical arena to try out my perceptual observations. Always waiting to be let in on the secret of existence, I realized that I had to find it myself bit by bit over a lifetime. Making has allowed me to follow these questions to ever more elaborate questions and out onto limbs that force me back to the main trunk of the tree, pulled by the hope of seeing deeper into the nature of being.

We are not just who we become, but everything we ever were.”
-Linda Fleming

To inquire about available work by Linda Fleming, contact [email protected]
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There are a lot of relationships within the sculpture that are lyrical. When I start out to make a work of art, I don’t ...
09/26/2026

There are a lot of relationships within the sculpture that are lyrical. When I start out to make a work of art, I don’t know where it’s going, I don’t know what I’m going to find. My work is inspired by contemporary issues as well as primitive and folk art of many cultures. Wood carving and assemblage are found in practically all cultures, and I find the connection inspiring. β€œ
- John Buck

Acclaimed artist John Buck, long represented by Robischon Gallery, is well known for his potent imagery and remarkable hand-carved, free-standing and kinetic wood sculpture across a range of scale and subject. In his current solo exhibition, 𝑁𝑒𝑀 + 𝑅𝑒𝑣𝑖𝑒𝑀, Buck’s artistic voice continues to resonate with insight and relevance. Carved wood and cast bronze sculptures, highly complex wall relief carving, and his latest series of intricate landscape drawings on wood panel invite contemplation through surreal, richly layered imagery and unexpected symbolism.

Jeulatong wood, the artist’s essential material is fundamental to all of his work, whether freestanding sculpture, wall relief panel, drawing, print, or highly complex kinetic mechanism. With a keen sense of balance, Buck’s wooden figures possess an archetypal grace that is at once personal and universal, harmonizing introspection with expression. The elaborate patterns and symbolic forms shouldered by the artist’s signature figures suggest metaphoric visions, and speak to profound and universal aspects of the human experience. Tactile and pictorial, abstract as well as figurative, John Buck’s long and outstanding career continues to be distinguished within the contemporary dialogue with its timeless recurring dynamic iconography and lyrical abstract forms.

𝑁𝑒𝑀 + 𝑅𝑒𝑣𝑖𝑒𝑀 is one of four standout solo exhibitions now on view at Robischon Gallery through October 31st.

Images: 1) John Buck, 2-3) New + Review installation, 4-5) β€œWhirlpool,” pen and ink on wood, 26.25 x 32 x 2 in., 6) β€œKenya,” jelutong wood, 69.5 x 27 x 9 in., 7) β€œCross Ways,” jelutong wood, 65.5 x 33 x 25.5 in., 8) β€œThe After Thought,” jelutong wood and acrylic, 36 x 66 x 5 in.

For me, these paintings possess a sense of returning to a place, and a vocabulary exploring the contradictions of our re...
09/23/2026

For me, these paintings possess a sense of returning to a place, and a vocabulary exploring the contradictions of our relationship to our history and myths of the landscape. My work has always lived at the nexus of time and memory. I am interested in how combining different visual images and creating unexpected associations can trigger emotional responses and connections to our past – strongly influencing how we perceive the present.
- Tom Judd

In his sixth Robischon Gallery exhibition, πΌπ‘›π‘‘π‘’π‘Ÿπ‘Ÿπ‘’π‘π‘‘π‘’π‘‘ πΏπ‘Žπ‘›π‘‘π‘ π‘π‘Žπ‘π‘’, artist Tom Judd revisits the expansive and varied Western landscape of his youth and the emblematic creatures who reside there. Moving between horizontal compositions and vertically cropped views, Judd deliberately interrupts the conventional panoramic landscape, presenting compressed and unexpected perspectives that invite the viewer to imagine what exists beyond the frame. Delicate, tactile drips, intentionally raw swaths of pigment and hand-built surfaces, further disrupt conventional modes of representation, pursuing the nature of transition through the artist's highly improvisational approach.

Drawing on an unexpected convergence of Americana, abstraction, and collage, Judd constructs richly layered, nature-based works that reveal a spirited and artful dialogue between memory, history, and landscape. The sixteen new paintings comprising πΌπ‘›π‘‘π‘’π‘Ÿπ‘Ÿπ‘’π‘π‘‘π‘’π‘‘ πΏπ‘Žπ‘›π‘‘π‘ π‘π‘Žπ‘π‘’ serve as material witness, evoking meditations on change, the sublime and the fragile, with generous intent to shift boundaries between what is remembered and what is imagined.

πΌπ‘›π‘‘π‘’π‘Ÿπ‘Ÿπ‘’π‘π‘‘π‘’π‘‘ πΏπ‘Žπ‘›π‘‘π‘ π‘π‘Žπ‘π‘’ is on view at Robischon Gallery alongside three equally compelling solo exhibitions; John Buck’s New + Review, David Hytone’s The Other End of the Telescope, and Stephen Batura’s Still Point.

Images: 1) Tom Judd, courtesy the artist, 2&4) Installation of πΌπ‘›π‘‘π‘’π‘Ÿπ‘Ÿπ‘’π‘π‘‘π‘’π‘‘ πΏπ‘Žπ‘›π‘‘π‘ π‘π‘Žπ‘π‘’, 3) β€œLady of the Rocks,” oil on canvas, 52 x 48 in., 5) Left: β€œLakeside,” oil on panel, 78 x 16 in., Right: β€œThe River’s Edge,” oil on panel, 78 x 16 in.

I’ve been considering the notion of self as an aggregate of separate entities, cobbled loosely together from the dispara...
09/19/2026

I’ve been considering the notion of self as an aggregate of separate entities, cobbled loosely together from the disparate facades we present both to the world and ourselves. This is not only reflected in the imagery employed in my work, but was also the result of my process, particularly how much of the work is constructed from hundreds of individual pieces of hand-painted paper.
- David Hytone

With a poetically evocative title, inviting viewers to consider the relationship between observer and observed, David Hytone presents his first exhibition at Robischon Gallery, π‘‡β„Žπ‘’ π‘‚π‘‘β„Žπ‘’π‘Ÿ 𝐸𝑛𝑑 π‘œπ‘“ π‘‘β„Žπ‘’ π‘‡π‘’π‘™π‘’π‘ π‘π‘œπ‘π‘’. Laboriously constructed from hundreds of individually painted and collaged elements on panel, Hytone’s paintings inhabit a space between abstraction, figuration and dream logic, where familiar forms become strange and meaning remains deliberately open.

In "Same/Same,” shown in the first two images, a nearly obsolete telephone receiver is paired with an illusory, abstract form rendered in the same green hue. What the enigmatic form may receive or transmit remains unresolved. Instead, the two elements establish a reciprocal relationship in which each object becomes a means of further defining the other, fluctuating between symbol and image.

Across Hytone’s work, gramophones, lobsters, mysterious lattice-like structures, and other theatrically staged objects are dramatically juxtaposed to great effect. Luminous color, tactile surfaces, and an idiosyncratic technique heighten the tension between the familiar and the inexplicable. Each composition suggests a narrative without resolving it, as Hytone generously allows the viewer to personally assemble and consider the meanings that emerge.

Enjoy this brief glimpse of two of the several complex artworks in David Hytone's intriguing and visually alive solo exhibition; concurrently on view with solos: Tom Judd’s "Interrupted Landscape," John Buck, "New + Review," and Stephen Batura "Still Point."

Images: 1-3) β€œSame/Same,” acrylic/Okawara on panel, 14x28 in., 4-6) β€œReluctant by Design,” acrylic/Okawara on panel, 32x28 in., 7)

Highly regarded Robischon Gallery artist Pard Morrison currently has ten dynamic freestanding sculptures lining the walk...
09/16/2026

Highly regarded Robischon Gallery artist Pard Morrison currently has ten dynamic freestanding sculptures lining the walkways of the Fort Collins Botanical Gardens for his solo exhibition, πΆβ„Žπ‘Ÿπ‘œπ‘šπ‘Žπ‘‘π‘’π‘π‘‘π‘’π‘Ÿπ‘’. Inspired by the colors of leaves, flowers, and shifting seasonal textures vibrantly on display across the grounds of the Gardens, Morrison’s varied and bold totemic sculptures offer unexpected and engaging geometry, enhancing their lush floral surroundings.

Morrison’s practice, intertwining surface and form, merges painting and sculpture into a kind of hybrid, articulating a sophisticated approach toward geometric abstraction through meticulously hand-fabricated aluminum structures and richly layered surfaces. Chromatic, vertically and horizontally unifying elements reveal the artist’s deep sensitivity to pattern and palette, while subtle brushwork introduces a distinctly human touch. Fundamentally concerned with the human experience, Morrison views the β€œfusion of surface and medium as an applicable metaphor for the human condition,” a philosophy that resonates within these sensitive and spirited, uncommon works.

Enjoy this glimpse of Morrison's stunning garden installation - πΆβ„Žπ‘Ÿπ‘œπ‘šπ‘Žπ‘‘π‘’π‘π‘‘π‘’π‘Ÿπ‘’ is on view through September 27th at the Gardens on Spring Creek in Fort Collins for all Colorado visitors.

Images: 1-5) Pard Morrison exhibition πΆβ„Žπ‘Ÿπ‘œπ‘šπ‘Žπ‘‘π‘’π‘π‘‘π‘’π‘Ÿπ‘’ at Fort Collins Botanic Gardens, 6) Portrait of Pard Morrison, courtesy the artist, 7) Pard Morrison solo exhibition, πΈπ‘£π‘’π‘Ÿπ‘¦π‘€β„Žπ‘’π‘Ÿπ‘’ π‘Œπ‘œπ‘’ πΊπ‘œ πΏπ‘œπ‘£π‘’ at Robischon Gallery.

THANK YOU to everyone who joined us for Thursday evening’s opening celebration of our four exhibitions: πΌπ‘›π‘‘π‘’π‘Ÿπ‘Ÿπ‘’π‘π‘‘π‘’π‘‘ πΏπ‘Žπ‘›π‘‘...
09/12/2026

THANK YOU to everyone who joined us for Thursday evening’s opening celebration of our four exhibitions: πΌπ‘›π‘‘π‘’π‘Ÿπ‘Ÿπ‘’π‘π‘‘π‘’π‘‘ πΏπ‘Žπ‘›π‘‘π‘ π‘π‘Žπ‘π‘’ by Tom Judd; 𝑁𝑒𝑀 + 𝑅𝑒𝑣𝑖𝑒𝑀 by John Buck; π‘‡β„Žπ‘’ π‘‚π‘‘β„Žπ‘’π‘Ÿ 𝐸𝑛𝑑 π‘œπ‘“ π‘‘β„Žπ‘’ π‘‡π‘’π‘™π‘’π‘ π‘π‘œπ‘π‘’ by David Hytone; and 𝑆𝑑𝑖𝑙𝑙 π‘ƒπ‘œπ‘–π‘›π‘‘ by Stephen Batura.

The diverse exhibitions on view explore the intersections of landscape/history, and memory/symbol through each artist’s signature mode of painting, sculpture, drawing and mixed-media techniques. We are particularly grateful to the artists for their extraordinary work - and to everyone who celebrated this exciting opening with us. We invite all to experience these extensive and vibrant exhibitions - open now through Saturday October 31st!

Tom Judd Stephen Batura John Buck David Hytone

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