Robert Verdi
Recent Paintings
August 4 – 16, 2007

Barn with Flag Mattituck, NY, acrylic on canvas, 36 x 48 in.	Brown and White Barn, acrylic on canvas, 36 x 48 in.
Large Red Barn, acrylic on canvas, 36 x 48 in.	Mr. Roses Barn, acrylic on canvas, 36 x 48 in.
Mr. Willies Barn, acrylic on canvas, 36 x 48 in.	Roberts Barn, acrylic on canvas, 24 x 30 in.
Wilson Barn, acrylic on canvas, 36 x 48 in.

Robert Verdi started painting in 1939 at the age of six. From that point on he was continuously engaged in artistic endeavors. He pursued a successful career as a hair stylist and professional photographer which led from his own salon on Park Avenue in NYC to Broadway, the Hollywood Film Industry, Beverly Hills and major cosmetic firms including Clairol, Pateen, and L’Oreal. His specialty was high style “beauty shots” for promotion and package design.

His paintings have been exhibited since 1970 in NYC, Vermont, Westhampton Beach and East Hampton. For the past 6 years Verdi has directed most of his creative energies to painting.

His Barn Series paintings are contemporary American documents. At heart Verdi is a purist / constructivist. His deceptively simple compositions are reminiscent of works by Milton Avery and Charles Sheller with a touch Paul Klee’s whimsy and the opulent surfaces of Gustav Klimt’s early landscape paintings.

Verdi paints with acrylic on canvas. He obtains tonal depth, texture and profound color saturation with this often blunt and lifeless medium. He has an innate sense of place and volume; of how a building “sits” on a site and how sky and ground delimit and enhance his personality filled barns. His paintings have the power to stay in the mind’s eye long after viewing them. The Barn /landscape paintings are bona-fide American Classics, documents that acknowledge the past and looks toward the future.