We recently connected with ROBERT ROESCH and have shared our conversation below.

ROBERT, appreciate you joining us today. What’s been the most meaningful project you’ve worked on?

What I do can not be categorized into one project. I have built many sited sculptures over the years.
Each time I was selected to do this, I felt honored, a bit frightened, and fully aware of the huge responsibility each project was.
Concept time was the most exciting, moving from nothing to a fully realized idea through many drawings and model building.
Some of the sculptures were built in my studio and some built with a fabricator.
My everydayness in the studio, gets life from those projects.

Awesome – so before we get into the rest of our questions, can you briefly introduce yourself to our readers.

I have made art from the time I was a child. I lived in the country in upstate New York, during those days our school had a visit from Frank Lloyd Wright’s studio. my life got a grip at that moment. I knew what I wanted from this life.
When I went to art school I met so very powerful teachers. I also became a follower of the Bauhaus.
I draw everyday.
My studio was basically a metal shop where countless sculptures were built.
I tried to move my studio every 15 years to keep things fresh.
I went from 4000 square feet to my current studio of 1000 square feet. the new studio is basically a digital space. I 3D print and draw in the computer.
My work took an enormous change when I became aware of brutal structures. It first happened while doing a State Department job in Azerbaijan. the pyramids in Cairo also changed the way I thought about structures (sculpture).
I have taught art making in one for or another for the past 50 years.
I went sailing every chance I could get.

What do you find most rewarding about being a creative?

When I was coming up the clear thinking was that the artist makes objects for their own self interest. That when the artist released the work into the public, any meaning the collector or viewer got from it was their own experience. Art had a broad universal meaning. That is to say anyone who interacted with the art, owned a piece of it.

My art was conceived by me for me and it was mine. that was rewarding ….

Today art work comes with a predetermined meaning. it is forced down the viewers throat by panelists and curators.
To me it is an ugly thing that has stifled our imaginations and has made us hostage to the art.

Can you share a story from your journey that illustrates your resilience?

I always told students that being an artist is like jumping off a cliff without a plan to save yourself. trust….trust in yourself…..trust in the work.
and you will be fine.
I have lived my life that way.

Contact Info:

• Website: robertroesch.com
• Instagram: roeschart
• Facebook: robertroesch
• Linkedin: ROBERT ROESCH
• Youtube: @robroesch

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