Robert G. Fishman, PhD, is a husband, father, grandfather, retired anthropologist, retired educator and an emerging contemporary artist who strives to develop paintings that speak emotionally to those things in his life that have meaning to him personally, socially, and spiritually. As such, Rob begins his creative process by seeking images that speak to him in the capacity by which he defines his expanding role in life and his journey through time. Using the camera as his foray into his subject matter, Rob finds images that speak directly to him that represent culture, beauty, solitude, love, sadness, despair, joy, and contentment. He uses images of his loved ones to reflect the emotional moments of his life, the rites of passages that all of us experience. As an extensive traveller to exotic cultures, Rob finds images that represent cultural experiences. Using his own photographic images Rob re-imagines these images creating emotional impressionistic and abstract impersonations that are more about feelings than simile. Rob rethinks, reimagines and redefines cultural experiences based on his years as an anthropologist and attempts to capture specific moments in time.
Rob divides his time between the mountains of Virginia and Potomac Md.
