smoke on paper on frame

Size: 18" x 24"

Artist bio:

Rob Tarbell is a fine artist, graphic designer, and art educator currently residing and maintaining a studio practice in Harrisonburg, Virginia.

Over the past 15 years, his work has balanced intent and control with accident and chance and fully embraces his penchant for unorthodox methods and materials, innovation, and integration of disparate influences.

His smoke and ceramic work have been shown in twenty solo exhibitions and more than seventy-five group exhibitions throughout the United States, Korea, China, and England.

Rob has been featured in publications, including New American Paintings, the Huffington Post UK, Daily Mail UK, and the Kultura Zabaikalya.

In 2007 Rob received the VMFA Professional Artist Fellowship and is an artist fellow at VCCA Amherst, VCCA Auvillar, France, and an artist in residence at the Ragdale Foundation and Hermitage Artist Retreat in Englewood, Florida.

His work is included in the permanent collections at the Tampa Museum of Art, Leepa-Rattner Museum of Art, The Jule Collins Smith Museum of Art, the Fralin Museum of Art at the University of Virginia, and Ripley’s Believe It Not in Orlando, Florida.

Rob Tarbell earned his BFA in Painting and Graphic Design from Auburn University, and an MFA in Drawing and Painting