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Artist Statement:
Website: www.robdrexel.com
I like my independence. I like
my personal expression
untethered, I like aesthetic
objects, and i like playing
with clay, air earth and fire
- and i really like my new
daughter Kiara and her amazing
mom Nikola Kael....
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Artist Exhibitions:
Coming Soon!
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Artist Galleries:
on the web at:
www.robdrexel.etsy.com
Gallery Locations
New Mexico:
Local Color Gallery
Main Street
Chama, NM 87520
phone: 505-756-2604
Color & Light
2842 Highway 14
Suite B
Madrid, NM 87010
phone: 505-424-7877
colorlightarts@aol.com
colorlightarts.com
Gallery of the Sandias
12220 North Highway ...
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Artist Reviews:
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Collections:
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Commissions:
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Rob Drexel Biography:
| Biographical information for Rob Drexel can be found below. The artist may choose what information to display. Sometimes the artist chooses not to display personal information to the general public. |
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Age
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53
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| Gender |
Male
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| Status |
Married
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| Children |
1
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| Religion |
not provided |
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| Education |
Graduate Work |
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| Hobbies / Interests |
alternative energy, alternative lifestyles, good food, music, music and music! |
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| Favorite Artistic Medium |
Ceramics Wheel
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| Favorite Arthistory Movement |
Impressionism - (1865 - 1885)
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| Favorite Visual Artist |
not provided
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| Favorite Work of Art |
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| Biggest Artistic Inspiration |
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| Why Did You Become An Artist |
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| Your Personal Biography |
Way back in that innocent time ‘bout 1955, Rob was born to the quintessential middle-class post-WW II American family in Phila, PA. Rob grew up in the emotional devastation of a normal, nice family where the only really decent thing for him to have done with his life was be a doctor, lawyer or corporate magnate (political incorrectness deferred)
Despite this severe handicap in pursuing a “real” artist’s life, and without the necessary years of psychotherapy, drugs and anti-social behavior (ok - well, just a little of this), his artistic urges survived. In college Rob ‘delighted’ his parents by switching majors from doctor-bound premed to unemployment-bound theater arts.
After 15 years as an entrepreneur, he scraped his face off the pavement yet again, sat down at a potter’s wheel for the first time in 1991 and frustrated the hell out of his fellow students in his only formal ceramic instruction - 8 beginning throwing classes. Apparently meant to wallow in the mud, Rob researched and taught himself about firing, glazes, built his own kilns and uncovered his obsession with fire - perfect for PIT FIRE.
Finally suffering and struggling at something he likes, Rob is contemplating past-life therapy to see if he was a potter, or perhaps, just a piece of mud in a previous life.
Update 2009:
Well, now it’s 2009 and after 19 years of pottery, some interesting years living in Europe and a short stint in Costa Rica, Rob and his Swiss partner Nikola are back in the states building their own mostly-green home in central New Mexico and getting to know their new daughter Kiara. |
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