Robert Turner Fine Art Landscape Photographs

Several years ago the traditional Vietnamese artisans’ group La Than Imperial Embroidery recreated my photograph “Alpenglow on Hurricane Ridge” in thread. See the sidebar link on this site for background on the project. Last April my wife Karen and I had a chance to see the piece for the first time in person during a visit to New York. I was overwhelmed by the detail and refinement that I had not been able to fully appreciate in the photos they had sent during the year-long making of the embroidery. Read the rest of this entry »

I exhibited at Art Santa Fe in July for the fifth consecutive year. I keep going back because my work seems to be finding a growing audience in Northern New Mexico—not only among local Santa Feans but also among art-aware people from across the country who come back year after year to spend their summers in the region. Read the rest of this entry »

In June my wife Karen and I finished what turned out to be a three year project—the designing and building of a house. We did not set out to do that. We intended to find an existing home that would cut Karen’s commute in half and give me more space for my office, studio, and storage. After a year of looking without finding anything that met our idiosyncratic needs, and egged on by our realtor whose father is a builder in Colorado (“It’s not that hard, just build one”) we did find a property in exactly the right spot and we did just that, we built one. Read the rest of this entry »

Received via email from a patient at the UC San Diego Moores Cancer Center:

Hi Robert,

First off I’d like to start by thanking you. I’m sure this will come as complete surprise to you, but you don’t know just how instrumental you have been in my recovery from cancer, AML (Leukemia) to be specific. I was diagnosed with Leukemia in June of last year and was treated at the UCSD cancer center. Once I was able to leave my hospital room after 5 months of treatments, I came across Aspens After a Morning Rain in the Moores Cancer Center where I still get weekly treatments. I still sit in front of that picture which I believe you donated and put myself in a better place. Read the rest of this entry »

Following up on last year’s successful show, I exhibited for a second time in late January at the 2011 Los Angeles Art Show. The venue was the downtown LA Convention Center. LAAS is an annual juried art fair that brings together more than 100 galleries from around the world. This year’s featured guest country was China. Exhibitors showed work in painting, sculpture, photography, video and printmaking genres. Read the rest of this entry »

I exhibited again this past July in a single-artist Project Space at the international contemporary art fair Art Santa Fe. The fair was held for the first time in Santa Fe’s new “green” Convention Center just off the central plaza. Art Santa Fe is an annual juried event that brings together the work of contemporary artists in all media from galleries in Europe, Asia, Latin America, and the United States. Read the rest of this entry »

In January my work was featured in the Susan Spiritus Gallery space at the Fine Art Dealers Association’s LOS ANGELES ART SHOW. It’s an annual juried event that brings together 110 galleries, both domestic and international, exhibiting work from all genres and periods—”from Rembrandt to Ruscha” as LAAS says in their description of the fair. It takes place in the downtown Los Angeles Convention Center. Read the rest of this entry »

My traveling exhibit, “Robert Turner: Rare Places in a Rare Light” was hosted most recently by The G2 Gallery in Venice, California. It ran from September 22 through November 8, 2009. The gallery opened in March of 2008 in the bustling Abbot Kinney District in this beach community south of Santa Monica. My pictures showed very nicely in their space. Read the rest of this entry »

My traveling exhibit Robert Turner: Rare Places in a Rare Light opened April 10th at the Buffalo Bill Historical Center in the museum’s John Bunker Sands Gallery. BBHC is a unique group of five themed museums under one roof at the eastern gateway to Yellowstone. They include the Whitney Gallery of Western Art and the Draper Museum of Natural History. Together they examine and interpret the human and natural history of the American West. Read the rest of this entry »

At Photo LA in January 2009 I introduced a new body of work. While continuing to pursue the light on the land as always, I’ve begun exploring other ways to bring light, form, and color together to create what I hope are evocative images. The first several pieces in this new series were well received at the Los Angeles show. Two of the larger ones sold off the wall and I was relieved to find that most people who have followed my landscape work applauded this expansion into new genres. Read the rest of this entry »