The intersection of line and color create the journey.  To create.  To bring forth what is inside.  To share the journey that takes one home without ever leaving it.  

My paintings are done on reclaimed wood, canvas, metals or any other surface that can deliver my images with strenght. I paint mixing traditional and contemporary media such as, oil paint and gesso, along side spray paint, paper, plastics and printing papers, ink and tape. By layering these media, I'm best able to convey my art's subject matter which draws heavily from my opinions on current affairs.  I enjoy works from Titan to the heroic and graphic power of the Comic Book form.

I have been a book seller in San Francisco for the last 28 years. During this time I have been painting portraits of people and the animals in my life--and exploring the relationships between the two. My greatest inspiration has been these observations in my daily life. Thank you for taking a look at my work.

The Friends of Sharon Art Studio (FOSAS) is devoted to sustaining and enhancing the Sharon Art Studio’s (SAS) goal to promote artistic development, craftsmanship, and creative expression. FOSAS is proud to be a partner of the SF Recreation & Parks Department (SFRPD) to bring Sharon Art Studio’s outstanding art programs to you. FOSAS believes that art education is an essential component of a healthy community and strives to ensure that quality, noncompetitive art programs are affordable and accessible to all.  Sharon Art Studio offers classes for youth and adults at two facilities: the beautiful historic Sharon Building in the Eastern end of Golden Gate Park, and now at Mission Arts Center. To register for classes and workshops, visit www.sfreconline.org.

I work realistically, in fact I work from life. I've always painted and drawn from single point of view. I started to make drawings from muliple points of view. Now I'm painting the Estate Sales using multple points of view.

I try to keep my life as creatively balanced and chaotic as much as I can--hoping they may cancel each other out. I am an evolving creature and need the room to evolve in life. 

I have attempted and dabbled in many forms of the art realm from sketching, painting, sculpting, spoken word, and performance art in an audio-digital format but photography has always nudged me along the way. Asking me to dance and refused each time.

It was intimidation that kept me at bay. I found a box of old photographs from the earlier years in the Navy/ San Francisco days and saw another world unfold. I have been on a constant experimentation of being a viewer through the lens. My connection to the freeze frame became solidified and captured my soul.

When I walk around with my camera in my hands the whole world looks different. I notice the tiniest details. The strange angles. The hidden shadows. When I look through the viewfinder the too big world becomes manageable. Magical. I can take a moment in time and make it last forever. These days we spend so much energy in our journeys from here to there distracting ourselves (cell, mp3, laptop) that we miss the little things. We miss being in and reacting to the present. Now more than ever it is the task of the photographer to capture the present for everyone that missed it the first time around.

Rob Anderson is known for the emotive power and exquisite execution of his art.  Whether drawing, painting, or multi-media installation, content is of great importance to him.  He works primarily with the human figure rendered from life incorporating it into environments, both abstract and real, actual or imagined.

 In his first open studio in 20 years, Rob will be showing a selection of artwork spanning his professional career including works from the Man-in-the-Box series, the Pergamon Altar Project, Rattlesnake in a Moving Car: Life with HIV, and his iconic 1982 Gay Olympic Games print.

As an artist & designer, I see the world as a vivid fantastic version of itself. My goal is to create happiness through art inspired by architecture and nature with a hint of playful childhood memories.