EXHIBITS:
Sept 9 – Oct 22, 2011
“The Apple Doesn’t Fall too Far from the Tree” will be my first solo exhibition at E|C Gallery in Chicago. I will be presenting new paintings in a bas relief fashion.
Sept 3 – 5, 2011
Bumber by Number exhibit at Bumbershoot Arts Festival
Sept 9 – Oct 1, 2011
“Dig for Fire“, an exhibit inspired by the band, the Pixies.
PUBLICATIONS:
FURTHER
MAGIC BEANS
“CHRONICAL” PRINT
For more information please visit http://www.roberthardgrave.com/#659254/Exhibitions
Simon Riley was born in Liverpool and attended St. Martins School of Art in London. After becoming a pavement artist, visitor health insurance chalking old masters onto chewing gum splattered paving slabs all over the UK, he spent several years in advertising making award winning TV commercials and trails for the BBC. But after serious illness, Simon began painting and drawing as a way to cope with his illness, often producing dark, intense portraits.
Born on December 12, 1863, in the village of Ådalsbruk in Løten, Norway, Edvard Munch was a symbolist painter, visitor insurance USA printmaker and draughtsman, and is recognized as an important precursor of the Expressionist movement.In 1879 Munch studied engineering at Kristiania Technical College where he learned scaled and perspective drawing. He was absent much of the time however due to frequent illness. In 1881, Munch decided to become a painter and studied for one year at the Royal School of Design. Upon leaving school, Munch rented a studio with a group of colleagues in Karl Johan Street, in the centre of the city.