Robert Zent Chew

I am an artist living in Los Angeles and Montrose, Colorado. My abstract and impressionistic works are based on contemporary themes from his travels and experiences from New York, Asia, California, and the Western United States. My work can be seen in exhibits at the Kline Academy of Fine Art, Los Angeles, the Hawthorne Arts Complex, and on website . A recent work is on display at the Old Mission Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, California.

After being a writer and marketing consultant, I found being an artist was my next calling. I have lived and traveled the world, but now live in Los Angeles and Colorado.

It's important to listen to what's inside yourself. We typically bury our creative spirit, despite the fact it is often our core essence. I like working in large formats using acrylic, oil, photography, and drawing.

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I am self taught, but my education started walking the galleries of Chicago's Art Institute. The Impressionists and Post-Impressionists started my "education." After years of collecting American folk art, abstracts, Asian art, and art from the American West,

After many years working as a writer and marketing professional, I dropped it all and lifted a paint brush. began a new life. My art used to start with "story" and built from there. Whether a dream or an inspiration or something strange and beautiful, my work is often built about the narrative. Lately however, I have moved on something more immersive. Right now, I am deeply moved by contemporary landscapes, including deconstructed abstracts, representational, and California impressionism, with influences from Edward Hopper to Richard Diebenkorn and more recently from Scott Yeskel and Brian Rutenberg.

Bringing my concepts to life seems as natural as breathing. I work primarily in oil and pencil/charcoal and currently focus on contemporary landscapes, images and atmospherics of past and present, and time worn people and places. I have lived and worked in Chicago, New York, Singapore, Los Angeles, Arizona, and Colorado.

My work can be found here, on several online ar...

Current: 2021 Art Exhibit, Old Mission Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, Calif.

2020 Kline Fine Art Academy Annual Art Exhibit
2019 Kline Fine Art Academy Annual Art Exhibit

Virtual Exhibits at: www.robertzentgallery.com