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Century Plant
Watercolor on paper • 12" x 16"
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Caneel Beach
II
Watercolor on paper • 20" x 16"
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Caneel Beach
I
Watercolor on paper • 20" x 16"
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Island
Watercolor on paper • 12" x 16"
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The Point
Watercolor on paper • 12" x 16"
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Twin Cove
Watercolor on paper • 12" x 16"
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Lighthouse
Point
Watercolor on paper • 14" x 20"
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Rough Sea
Watercolor on paper • 12" x 16"
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Big Splash
Watercolor on paper • 12" x 16"
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Coral Shore
Watercolor on paper • 12" x 16"
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The Cay
Watercolor on paper • 14" x 20"
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To the Deck
Watercolor on paper • 12" x 16"
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Dock and
Coral Shores
Watercolor on paper • 12" x 16"
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View from
Deck
Watercolor on paper • 12" x 16"
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Palms
Watercolor on paper • 12" x 16"
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Privateer
Beach
Watercolor on paper • 12" x 16"
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The Lily
Watercolor on paper • 12" x 16"
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Coconut Palm
Watercolor on paper • 12" x 16"
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Shaded Deck
Watercolor on paper • 12" x 16"
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Beach House
Watercolor on paper • 14" x 20"
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Boardwalk
by the Sea
Watercolor on paper • 14" x 20"
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At the Beach
Watercolor on paper • 12" x 16"
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Foliage by
the Sea
Watercolor on paper • 12" x 16"
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Palms and
Breakwater
Watercolor on paper • 12" x 16"
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Pines
Watercolor on paper • 14" x 20"
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Robert Tharsing is a Professor Emeritus
in the Department of Art at the University of Kentucky. He was born
in Santa Monica, California, and graduated from the University of
California at Berkeley in 1967 with BA and MA degrees. He married
Ann Tower in 1973 and they have a daughter, Lina.
Tharsing is known for the breadth of
his artwork, making both abstract and representational paintings
and sculpture. He has been the recipient of many awards, including
the Phelan Prize at the University of California at Berkeley, and
the Al Smith Fellowship, presented by the Kentucky Arts Council.
In 1998, Tharsing was the subject of a profile produced by Kentucky
Educational Television entitled Master of Art: Robert Tharsing,
and in 1999-2000, he conceived, hosted and co-directed a series
for KET entitled "Looking at Painting."
Tharsing's work has been shown regionally,
nationally, and internationally and is included in many private
and public collections, such as the University of Kentucky Art Museum,
the Kentucky Clinic and the College of Business and Economics, University
of Kentucky, Lexington, KY; the J.B. Speed Art Museum, Louisville,
KY; the Huntington Museum of Art, Huntington, WV; Dollar General
Corporate Offices, Goodlettsville, TN; Alabama Power Company, Birmingham,
AL; and the Owensboro Museum of Fine Art, Owensboro, KY.
I am fascinated by the wealth of possibilities
of what painting can be, as well as by what it has been. Artists
of the past have established the boundaries, much as early explorers
mapped the continents, but we are still finding new ways to make
paintings and likewise, we continue to learn about the Earth and
our place in it. I see painting as the search for meaning -- the
meaning of the painting and the meaning of life.
I am interested in a variety of ideas
regarding the nature of painting, and I have developed several ways
of working to address these ideas by using realism, abstraction,
and often a mixture of both. Color and the processes I use to arrive
at an image are the common threads that run through my work.
Robert Tharsing, 2005
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