Robert Herdlein

I'm an artist living in New Hampshire. Over 90 exhibitions and I've worked in a wide variety of media including painting, assemblage, installations, public art, photography, video, music at various points.

I've had around 90 gallery exhibitions including The Henry Gallery at The University of Washington, The Tacoma (Washington) Art Museum and The Bellevue (Washington) Art Museum. Work in collections throughout the United States. Gallery affiliations have included the Davidson Gallery-Seattle, Cliff Michel Gallery-Seattle, the Jamison/Thomas Gallery-Portland, OR. and the Case Gallery and Nahcotta Gallery in Portsmouth, NH. Not affiliated with any galleries at this point although I am interested in representation.

What I’m trying to do with the most recent digital images is combine my interests in neuroscience and how perception and vision work as well as interests I have in physics and the idea of the multiverse, The Children’s Crusade of 1212 as it relates to mythistory (something I've been interested in since I was a child), abstraction, art history and transnational crime.

Far as perception goes in some ways for me the layering of these images represents the point that we experience the world just prior to ordering and associating.

Also an idea runs through these first mentioned by John Keats, "negative capability" which is the willingness to embrace uncertainty, to live with a sense of not-knowing and humility and a makin...