Robert Hennon

Born: Bloomington, IN, 1959
Large contemporary painterly-realist still life paintings
Oil on canvas, large, colorful

The current basis for my work is the still-life genre. Interestingly, the still life was once considered the lowest form of objective painting, with the ultimate pictorial achievement being the grand historical painting. Ive poke about with figures, cityscapes and abstraction and always came back to the still life. When it was not convenient to paint nudes, or go outside to paint, I would arrange a still life in a studio corner. As I worked more and more with the still life the more enamored I became with the solidity of the objects on a table. I became fascinated with the close depiction of observed reality as it is interpreted at the time.

2000-2003 Craven Community College, New Bern, NC.
1981-1984 Indiana University, Bloomington, IN.
1980-1981 Indiana University at Kokomo, Kokomo, IN.
1980- Warren Wilson College, Swannanoa, NC.
1979-1980 Indiana University at Kokomo, Kokomo, IN.

2007 Fayetteville Museum of Art 35th Annual Competition, Fayetteville, NC.
2006 Greenville Museum of Art 2nd Annual Juried Art Exhibition, Greenville, NC.
2005 Greenville Museum of Art Juried Art Exhibition, Greenville, NC.
2006 Circle 10 Art Gallery Small Works Art Exhibit, Oriental, NC.
2006 Raleigh Fine Arts Society 28th Annual Artists Exhibition, Meredith College, Raleigh, NC.
2005 Arts Council of Wayne County 26th National Juried Fine Arts Exhibition, Goldsboro, NC.
2004 2 3D + 3 2D = 5 Views, Craven Arts Council, New Bern, NC
2003 Open Studio Tours, New Bern, NC
2003 Members Only Exhibit, Craven Arts Council, New Bern, NC.
2003 Robert Hennon/Jason Smith Exhibit, Craven Arts Council, New Bern, NC.
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