About — Rob Carpenter

Rob Carpenter plays with line to create calculated, eye-pleasing hand drawn "tapestries" as viewers often refer to them. Deliberately and repetitiously, Carpenter draws each line then layers those lines until they fuse together to become one surface. Upon the completion of each time consuming layer, he steps back and recalculates his next stratum. He adapts and reacts by adjusting line weight, color interaction and the new line's directional effect on texture. His process is meditative and tedious but his finished work is expressive and impressively crafted. Carpenter draws with a tool once used by draftsmen, ink filled technical pens on paper.

A Mississippi native, Carpenter earned his B.S. in History at Mississippi State University and M.F.A. in Painting and Drawing at Louisiana State University. Carpenter has been featured in Studio Visit Magazine and New American Paintings and has received two grants for outdoor sculpture and painting. His work has been featured nationally at the George Krevsky Gallery in San Francisco, the William Dale Gallery in New Orleans, The Medici Center for the Visual Arts in Philadelphia and The Metropolitan Gallery in Arlington, VA.

Carpenter also served as a Professor of Painting and Drawing at Nicholls State University (Thibodaux, LA) from 1991 – 2012.

Biography:

Robert Lamb Carpenter lives in Baton Rouge, LA and works in his studio, “L’Atelier d’ Agneau”. His work has been exhibited widely throughout the United States in various museums, galleries, universities, and art centers including the Joslyn Art Museum (Omaha, NB), The Alexandria (LA) Museum of Art, Pensacola (FL) Museum of Art, Masur Museum of Art, (Monroe, LA), and the Walter Anderson Museum of Art (Ocean Springs, MS).

Gallery exhibitions include the George Krevsky Gallery (San Francisco), William Dale Gallery (New Orleans), Spectrum Gallery (New York, NY), Metropolitan Gallery (Arlington, VA), B. Deemer Gallery (Louisville, KY), and the Milton Rhodes Gallery (Winston-Salem, NC),

University exhibtions include Oklahoma State University (Stillwater, OK) California State University (Camarillo, CA) Louisiana State University (Baton Rouge, LA), Delta State University (Cleveland, MS), East Tennessee University (Johnson City, TN), the University of Southeastern Louisiana (Hammond, LA), the University of Mobile (AL), Fayetteville State University (Fayetteville, NC), Harper College (Palatine, IL), Central Missouri State University (Warrensburg, MO), the University of Georgia (Athens, GA), Bradley University (Peoria, IL), Lamar University (Beaumont, TX), Fort Hays State University (Hays, KS), Cameron University (Lawton, OK), and the University of Southern Mississippi (Hattiesburg, MS).

Art center exhibitions include the Cooperstown Art Association (Cooperstown, NY), the South Arkansas Arts Center (El Dorado, AK), the Tri-County Arts Council (Cobleskill, NY), the Smithtown Township Arts Council (St. James, NY), the Edward Hopper House Art Center (Nyack, NY), the Colonie Art League (Latham, NY), the Medici Center for the Visual Arts (Philadelphia, PA), the Orange County Center for the Visual Arts (Santa Ana, CA), the Yuma Art Center (Yuma, AZ), and the Barnwell Art Center (Shreveport, LA).