Robert Hoglund

Robert Hoglund's original monoprints possess such a sense of mass and dimensionality, they convey the feeling that the viewer could "walk right into a print," according to Hoglund. "I try to bring out as much texture and three-dimensional effects as I can without a piece jumping off the wall," Hoglund observes.

His monoprints begin with a one of a kind monotype as a base, which Hoglund enhances with airbrushing and works with colored pencils to achieve a multi-surfaced modeling effect.

A graduate of Edinboro University of Pennsylvania where he received his MFA, Hoglund brings a rich and varied background to his art. He has studied drawing, painting, printmaking and sculpture, and has professional experience as a graphic artist and technical illustrator. He has also done extensive work with developmentally disabled, having run a ceramic workshop for the handicapped after completing his graduate degree.

Hoglund's interdisciplinary approach to art is evident in a series of prints for Rosenbaum Fine Art depicting Ionic columns. Textures and shadings are so accurately rendered, it's difficult to believe the pieces are merely two-dimensional. To reinforce the reality, some of the prints contain an overlaying architectural grid--calling attention not only to the craft behind the art, but underscoring Hoglund's sense of humor as well.

Spatialness and movement characterize Hoglund's abstract landscapes. When not swept by wind, his subjects are draped in light that seems to emanate fences, or distant mountains seem to be in joyous motion in Hoglund's monoprint ballets.

"My landscapes tend to be playful," according to Hoglund, who draws inspiration from a varied range of artists from Monet to Rauschenberg.