ARTIST STATEMENT

A preservationist at heart, Bob’s sweeping acrylics on canvas capture the primitive beauty of stone, twig, boulder and branch – earthly elements we all see each day, but often overlook.  “I’ve been experimenting with size and scale, creating variations on a single scene from near and far,” Bob explains. Diptych pieces such as “Longs Peak – Near and Far” reflect this new aesthetic.

RESUME

EDUCATION
B.S. Art Education, Millersville, PA, 1969

SOLO EXHIBITIONS
Lynden Gallery, Elizabethtown, PA
Lebanon Valley College, Annville, PA
Doris E. Blechler Gallery, Lancaster, PA
Marion Art Gallery, Lancaster, PA
Reading Community College, Reading, PA
Lancaster Graphics, Lancaster, PA
Demuth Foundation, Lancaster, PA

GROUP EXHIBITIONS
Six Pennsylvania Realists, Harrisburg Art Association, Harrisburg, PA
Washington & Jefferson College National Painting Exhibition, Washington, PA
Millersville University, Millersville, PA
Five in Focus, Reading Public Museum, Reading, PA
Gateway Center National Art Exhibition, Newark, VA
Diversity in American Art, Gallery at Abbott's Square

AWARDS
Purchase Award, Bald Eagle Art League Juried Exhibition, Williamsport, PA
Purchase Award, Mann Gallery, REading Museum Juried Exhibition, Reading, PA
Purchase Award, Washington & Jefferson National Painting Exhibition, Washington, PA
Purchase Award, Reading Museum, Reading Museum Juried Exhibition, Reading, PA
First Prize, Painting, William Penn Museum Juried Exhibition, Harrisburg, PA

COLLECTIONS
Armstrong World Industries, Lancaster, PA
Bald Eagle Art League, Williamsport, PA
Capital Blue Cross, Harrisburg, PA
Core States Bank, Philadelphia, PA
Donnelley Printing Co.Cartographic Services, Lancaster, PA
E.I. DuPont, Wilmington, DE
Hamilton Bank, Lancaster, PA
Lancaster County Courthouse, Lancaster, PA
Lancaster Graphics, Lancaster, PA
Lancaster Newspapers, Inc., Lancaster, PA
First Union-Spring Ridge Center, Reading, PA
Millersville University, Millersville, PA
Osteopathic Hospital, Lancaster, PA
Pennsylvania State University, Berks Campus, Reading, PA
Reading Public Museum, Reading, PA
Washington & Jefferson College, Washington, PA
Bank of Lancaster County, Lancaster, PA
Lancaster Museum of Art, Lancaster, PA

PRESS RELEASES  click on entry to read

Robert Bitts, Near and Far, June 2006