Rock & Ivy: photograph from Robert Filbey. 12x8 inch black and white photo matted on 17.5x14 inch poster board, signed by artist. This is the only one printed and the negative was destroyed.
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Robert (Bob) Filbey (1946- ) grew up in Pomona California, won 2nd
place for his clay model of the One Eyed One Horned Flying Purple People
Eater contest from a LA radio station at the age of 12, losing to a
commercial artist. He illustrated his grammar school and Junior High
School newspaper mastheads, and designed his high school mascot while
writing and illustrating a book detailing the origin of the moon from
the Pacific Ocean. He attended Pomona College, practiced painting and
sculpture under Salvatore Grippi and John Mason with fellow classmates
Chris Burden, Michael Brewster, James Turrell, Robin Rector Krupp,
Charles Plotkin, Mary Bennett, and Mark Wilson. He undertook more
painting studies at UCSB graduate school while illustrating college text
books there and at NYU graduate school before moving off the grid to a
remote forest in Northern California (near Old Harris). He produced an
X-rated comic book, and when a friend colored their copy, he got the
idea for a coloring contest using his Summer Solstice invitations which
has been going on for 52 years. He also did a series of greeting cards,
continued illustrating college textbooks, mostly medical, and took on
commercial illustration work of logos, T-shirts, ads, political
cartoons, and magazine articles written for the Whole Earth Catalogue
and other art periodicals along with occasional fine art. When Apple
Corp offered grants for artists, he wrote and received a reply from Neil
Aspinall just as Apple suspended the grants. He also dabbled in
animation, doing some ads for Estes Rockets and Concept Films and his
own experimental animated films. He practiced life drawing and painting
with Peter Holbrook, Frank Cieciorka, Karen Horn, Jim McVicker, and
George Van Hook during the early 1980's. He produced and illustrated the
BIGFOOT Country Touring Map of Northern California before moving to
Blue Lake, CA. There he did more logos, posters, political cartoons,
T-shirts, murals, and commercial illustration for magazine and newspaper
ads, Sun Frost, Tomas Jewelry, and record and CD covers while doing
fine art on the side. He attended HSU graduate art school and learned
photography from Ellen Land-Weber and printmaking under Bill Anderson
and Michael Bravo. He has worked in various media (pencil and conte
crayon, ink, oil, acrylic, gouche, and watercolor painting, lithography,
serigraphy, etching, monoprinting, collage, assemblages, and sculpture)
and still produces an occasional piece today. He has only had 3 shows
during his career, the first in Eureka with champagne sold out in the
1980's, the next in Arcata in the 1990's was well attended but only sold
2 works. Sadly, most of his work from the 1990's, as well as some of his earlier work was destroyed when his house burned to the ground. His last show was in 2014 in Eureka, The Cartoon Show, where
beer was served and he sold nothing despite being nationally published by Comic Relief, Comic Review, and Anderson Valley Advertiser
. His work is represented in many
private collections in this country and England. It is eclectic in
subject matter, some demonstrating his love for drawing, his wry sense
of humor, others are dreamlike fantasy visions or loose free liquid
strokes, and many are experimental. His artwork is frequently on eBay
auctions, and you can see samples of his fine art portfolio and
cartooning here at filbeyart.store.