Eva Roberts

There are only two kinds of artists—revolutionaries and plagiarists.
– Paul Gauguin

In my studio process, I discover patterns in the splendor of liquid paint as it seeps from possibility to presence. Beginning with a splash of numinous non-sense arrested by a moment of awe, I am seduced into the quest for one more glimpse of magic.

I have spent glorious summers camping and rock climbing in the Sierra. Like a climber on a vertical ascent, my paintings dance that edge of will and surrender.

My work reveals my reverence for the heat of sacred sensuality. I paint from that place where spirit and sex are one. The paintings are steeped in a primal feminine sensibility of passionate receptivity, of ecstatic union, of creation as birth. On the tantric tree of life, sex is the root and spirit is the flower.

I believe that form follows consciousness. All that is visible appears through a refraction of the invisible, like the colors of a rainbow appearing from white light. Serving as a potential prism for this spectacle, the creative intelligence of the Universe is, I believe, at least as highly-structured and multifaceted as a crystal, as...

1976 B.F.A., Sculpture, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
1974 B.A., Fine Arts & Biology, University of Pennsylvania
1978 School of Visual Arts, New York, NY
1978-9 Art Students’ League, New York, NY
1983-4 Sculpture Center, New York, NY
1986 Academy of Art, San Francisco, CA
1986-9 College of Marin Bronze Foundry, Kentfield, CA

Solo Exhibitions
2001 Zeneta Kertisz Gallery, Venice, CA
1996 McIntosh Gallery, Atlanta, GA

Group Exhibitions
2009 L2kontemporary, Los Angeles, CA - Mo’ Flow: Blots and Trails
2003 Andrew Shire Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2003 Stage Gallery, Merrick, NY
2003 Small Works Gallery, Steamboat, CO
2002 Bromfield Art Gallery, Bromfield, MA
2002 Broyles Art Center, Atlanta, GA
2001 L.A. County Museum of Art ARSG, Los Angeles, CA
2000 Don O’Melveny Gallery, Beverly Hills, CA
1999 Boritzer Gray Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
1999 Noho Gallery, North Hollywood, CA
1999-2001 Zeneta Kertisz Gallery, Venice, CA
1990 Downey Art Museum, Downey, CA
1990 Sun Gallery, Hayward, CA
1989 Marin Civic Center, San Rafael, CA
1989 Schoonmaker Arts Alliance, Sausalito, CA
1988 Permanent exhibition on civic display, Sakaide, Japan
1983 Francis Aronson Gallery, Atlanta, GA
1983 Sculpture Center Gallery, New York, NY
1979 Art Students’ League Gallery, New York, NY