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Robert Townsend

Robert Townsend (Born 1974) is active/lives in California.  Robert Townsend is known for Pop art icons.

Robert Townsend was born in Downey, California in 1974. He paints highly finished images of the icons of an American Pop mythology. His unfailing eye for color and texture produce a vision of America's material culture that vacillates between nostalgia for what is lost and optimism for the continuation of American ingenuity.

Townsend's aesthetic draws heavily from his California upbringing and life in Los Angeles. Townsend lives and works out of an industrial warehouse turned artist complex known as the Los Angeles Brewery. Formerly home to Pabst Blue Ribbon brewery, the sprawling building was converted into artist lofts, and is now one of the oldest and largest art colonies in the world.

Citing American painters Wayne Thiebaud and Robert Bechtle as primary influences, Townsend does work that is a mixture of pop, photo-realism, surrealism and representational interpretations of largely mid-century subject matter. His exceptional technical ability is complement   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 2337 characters.]  Artist bio

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