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Robert Siegelman

249 A Street, 5th floor
617 350 6663
bob7737@earthlink.net

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McGowan Fine Art: Robert Siegelman

Robert Siegelman works in printmaking, photography, installation, and artists books. He teaches at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, and at the Eliot School in Jamaica Plain. He also teaches workshops regularly throughout New England. He is the Co-Director of Art In Amsterdam, a studio program for artists held each summer in the Netherlands.

The work and imagery that I pursue in photography uses sexuality as a metaphor. I am making photographs that are autobiographical, yet which many viewers find meaningful. I am seeking to express the need gay men often feel to create a sense of identity, within one’s self and culture. Many find their lives reflected in this work in ways that are generally not shown in artwork or the media.

I also work in Printmaking and make unique woodcut prints. Traditionally woodcut Printmaking has been used to replicate images through printed editions. While I occasionally do this, I usually make one of a kind pieces, also called Monoprints. These pieces are all made with wooden plates and printed on Asian papers. First plates are carved with a router or a Dremel. I work directly with these tools as drawing implements. I do not use them to execute predetermined or pre-drawn images. I like the awkwardness of drawing with powerful tools and the quality of mark that results. I then ink the plates and print them on the paper in layers. I use a modulated roll of color on each plate to achieve integration, and a sense of floating in and out of space. The images relate to passages and patterns found in nature, and the subtle changes of shifting light.