Bob Aldrich
American, b. 1955
Brattleboro, Vermont



In 2025 I decided to stop showing work just because it's not important to me anymore. I'm outsider-lite anyway, so I'll just have fun experimenting. Plus, it's an expense and if you want to be an artist out in public it's not cheap to enter work to a bunch of shows only to get about a third of those entries accepted.

Statement

Focus is primarily on abstract and automatic painting and drawing. Lately, some less abstract images have begun to infiltrate the work, though they are in the background and less obvious than the ideas that come through an automatic, meditative process, whatever you call it?
The work is in response to many things- nature, things happening in the news, memories, color, the essence of a particular object, a response to the idea of motion, time. Bob feels a painting as much as he sees it. He sees himself more as a bystander or instrument in the process and is grateful that he’s able to have this way to interpret what’s going on around him.