Robert Verran


Bobby’s work is about process. The application of paint with a brush, covering something with a color, then covering it again, slowly building up a surface, adding more and more each day. Variety in form comes from differing textures and accidental separations of colors. He uses various techniques to break up the surface, sometimes adding paper, cloth or other materials, sometimes removing the additions to show what was hidden underneath.

Artist’s Statement

They call me Bobby, too. I paint and stuff. The red paint with the big brush. Put them on the wall there. The red paint is what I do with a big brush. Different colors. Oh, different ones. I put tape on there, put it up on the wall, I do. I’m an artist ‘cause I do that kind of stuff. They know I use all the red paint.

I like walking around downtown- Michigan Avenue, LaSalle Street, Chicago Avenue, too. Oh, Osco Drugs, that is, too. Anything is good. I like them, the good magazines. The pictures in them. Life Magazine, Saturday Evening Post, Esquire Magazines, too.

Pop and cupcakes, too. And Pepsi Cola, too. Cookies and donuts, too, yes. Yes, candy bars, too. Good Stuff. Any kind of ice cream, too, I like, yes. Chocolate. Yes, and orange pop, too. I like.

Life magazine, $2.50, I believe. They are too expensive, real ones. But I like to buy those. Computer magazines, too. Any kind. Trees.

Arts of Life, I like it here. I drink coffee every morning, too. I love that.

I like dogs. I like different kinds of dogs. Black dogs, seeing eye dogs, police dogs, they like me. Oh, I would like to have one, a real one, I would.

I just paint it good. I like to paint stuff and walk around, too. Pictures, oh! Make ‘em good. Yes, red paint. Yes, it’s good stuff. Good Stuff. It’s the paint stuff.