Rob Roy
Dispatches from America
01. Bestiary #20A, 2021, monotype, acrylic on offset, 11 x 25.25 inches, $600.00
02. Bestiary #19, 2021, monotype, acrylic on offset, 11 x 25.25 inches, $600.00
03. Bestiary #18, 2021, monotype, acrylic on offset, 11 x 25.25 inches, $600.00
04. Bestiary #5, 2019, monotype, acrylic on offset, 11 x 19 inches, $550.00
05. Bestiary #10, 2019, monotype, acrylic on wallpaper, 12.125 x 16 inches, $500.00
06. Bestiary #13, 2020, monotype, acrylic, 11.625 x 18 inches, $500.00
07. Bestiary #12, 2020, monotype, acrylic on offset, 14.5 x 18.625 inches, $600.00
08. Bestiary #8, 2019, monotype, acrylic, charcoal on offset, 8.875 x 11 inches, $300.00
09. Bestiary #15, 2020, monotype, acrylic, 10.75 x 16.125 inches, $500.00
10. Bestiary #17, 2020, monotype, acrylic on offset, 11.5 x 19 inches, $600.00
11. Bestiary #7 (Rhino), 2019, monotype, acrylic on offset, 11 x 17 inches, $500.00
12. Bestiary #18A, 2020, monotype, acrylic on offset, 11.25 x 17.5 inches, $500.00
13. Bestiary #20, 2021, monotype, acrylic on color chart, 10.375 x 17.375 inches, $500.00
14. Bestiary #14, 2020, monotype, acrylic on offset, 11 x 21.875 inches, $600.00
15. Bestiary #11, 2019, monotype, acrylic on offset, 9.25 x 16.5 inches, $500.00
16. Untitled, 2016-21, acrylic, mixed media, 27.5 x 21 inches, $2500.00
17. The Iron Horse, 2018-21, acrylic, mixed media, 10.5 x 20.5 inches, $2500.00
18. Color Chart #75, 2017, monotype on color chart, 22 x 16.75 inches, $500.00
19. Color Chart #72, 2015, monotype, chine collé on color chart, 10.5 x 22 inches, $500.00
20. Color Chart #79, 2017, monotype on color chart, 12.125 x 17.75 inches, $500.00
21. Operation Squirrel, 2016, monotype on color chart, 9 x 18 inches, $500.00
22. Operation Pegasus, 2018, monotype, acrylic, chine collé on offset, 9.5 x 17 inches, $500.00
23. The Art of War #4, 2017-21, monotype, acrylic on offset, 12 x 18.125 inches, $500.00
24. A Copter for Hans, 2019-21, monotype, acrylic on offset, 7.25 x 11 inches, $300.00
25. Untitled, 2019, monotype on offset, 11.5 x 16.75 inches, $500.00
26. Untitled, 2019, monotype, acrylic on offset, 11.75 x 18.875 inches, $500.00
27. Untitled, 2019, monotype, acrylic on offset, 10 x 16 inches, $500.00
28. Apache, 2015-21, acrylic, 19.875 x 20.25 inches, $2500.00
29. Operation Tomahawk #2, 2018, monotype, acrylic, 7.75 x 18 inches, $400.00
30. Magenta Skies #2, 2019, monotype, acrylic, 19.125 x 24.375 inches, $600.00
31. The Art of War #5, 2019-20, monotype, acrylic, 7 x 24 inches, $400.00
32. Magenta Skies #1, 2019, monotype, acrylic, 12.875 x 26.375 inches, $600.00
33. Study for Angels #1, 2020, monotype, acrylic on offset, 11x 22 inches, $500.00
34. Study for Angels #2, 2020, acrylic, collage on color chart, 11.75 x 24.5 inches, $600.00
35. The Art of War #3, 2019-21, monotype, acrylic, 12 x 16.25 inches, $400.00
36. Color Chart #77, 2017, monotype on color chart, 13.25 x 18 inches, $500.00
37. The Art of War #2, 2018-21, monotype, acrylic, collage, 12.25 x 16.125 inches, $500.00
38. Color Chart #78, 2017-21, monotype, acrylic on chart, 11 x 16.25 inches, $500.00
39. Play Ball #14, 2017, monotype, chine collé, 12 x 18.25 inches, $800.00
40. Play Ball #15, 2015, monotype, acrylic, on offset, 5.625 x 22 inches, $500.00
41. Play Ball #18 (Mantle), 2018, monotype, acrylic, 10.125 x 19 inches, $500.00
42. Play Ball #19, 2018, monotype, acrylic on offset, 11 x 19 inches, $500.00
43. Play Ball #20, 2018, monotype, acrylic on offset, 10.875 x 18.25 inches, $500.00
44. Play Ball #21, 2018, monotype on wallpaper, 11.75 x 15.875 inches, $400.00
45. Bestiary #21, 2021, monotype, acrylic on offset, 11 x 19 inches, $600.00
46. How the West was Won, 2019-21, acrylic, 38 x 27 inches, $2800.00
47. The Art of War, 2019-21, acrylic, monotype on offset, 11 x 25 inches, $500.00
48. Untitled Car #1, 2019, A/P linocut, 19.5 x 19 inches, $400.00
49. The Art of War #6A, 2019-20, monotype, acrylic, 2.5 x 10 inches, $150.00
50. Bestiary #9, 2019, monotype, 4.5 x 8.5 inches, $200.00
51. Bestiary #16, 2020, monotype, acrylic on offset, 12 x 24 inches, $650.00
52. Six Chickens, 2012, monotype, 24.25 x 25 inches, $850.00
53. Terror Car #3, 2017, monotype, chine collé, hand painting, 10.25 x 16.5 inches, $800.00
54. Hitler’s Car, 2020-21, acrylic, mixed media, paper on panel, 12 x12 inches, $550.00
55. Terror Car #1, 2017, monotype and acrylic on offset, 10.375 x 14.625 inches, $500.00
56. The Art of War #6, 2019-20, monotype, acrylic on offset, 11.875 x 16.625 inches, $500.00
57. Terror Car #2, 2017, monotype, acrylic on offset, 11.75 x 18.125 inches, $500.00
58. Untitled Car #2, 2019, A/P linocut, 20 x 18.5 inches, $400.00
59. Six Crosses, 2018-21, acrylic, mixed media, 19 x 36.5 inches, $2500.00
Dispatches from America
The challenge with making a painting or print, for me, is its elusiveness. Rarely does a work resolve itself quickly. More often, it reveals itself slowly. Time allows me to see other ways to develop a work. The process can go on for many months or years.
Matisse said, “If Cezanne is right, then I am right.” In terms of purification and condensation of images, formal elements, and meaning, I, with humility, take the liberty of saying, “If Matisse is right, then I am right.”
I make work that responds to images and events that span both American and world history. This way of looking started in my childhood and has continued into the present. I look at my use of subject matter (often current events, war, terrorism, conflict, religion, danger, science, sports, culture, capitalism, and globalization) as an open system, and in constant flux. It is also an opportunity to consider what has been lost, and what continues to resonate. It is also an opportunity to evaluate the relevance of what endures.
Rob Roy, 2021
Brief Biography
Rob Roy earned a MFA from Yale University, School of Art and Architecture, and a BFA (Magna Cum Laude) from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. His work is in many public collections including the Museum of Modern Art, NYC, Housatonic Museum of Art, Danforth Museum of Art, Art Complex Museum, the Boston Public Library, and the College of New Jersey. He is a Professor of Painting, Drawing, and Printmaking at Montserrat College of Art, where he has been on the faculty since 1988.