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ARTIST STATEMENT: Painting must be viewed as a tool. It can be a very serious step toward understanding a deeper meaning in not just the art world, but in conscious life itself. As a graduate student at IUP, Bobby's work chooses to initiate pure imagination and subconscious thought while showing many of the social struggles and misconceptions occurring in our everyday existence. Heavily influenced in primitivism, abstract expressionism, Walt Disney, and Dr. Seuss, Bobby creates narratives full of imaginative creatures in an attempt to raise awareness and fight the taboo issues of social injustices occurring worldwide. |