Born in 1928 in Indiana, as Robert Clark. Between 1945 and 1948
he studied at Art schools in Indianapolis and Utica and from
1949-1953 at the Chicago Art Institute School and the Skowhgan
School of Painting and Sculpture, Maine. He settled in New York
eventually and his early works were inspired by traffic signs,
automatic amusement machines, commercial stencils and old tradenames.
In the early sixties he did sculpture assemblages and developed
his style of vivid colour surfaces, involving letters, words
and numbers. He became known for silkscreen prints, posters
and sculptures which took the word LOVE as their theme. These
works had an almost brash feel in the way in which the colours
and forms were arranged symmetrically.
He
lives and works on an island in Maine, USA.
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