Up and Coming Show!
Check out this Friday the 5th! Downtown Eugene. The BuS ShoW!
Feature artwork from several of Oregon's finest Grad students.
I will be installing my piece "Going Green" So come on out and learn to crochet or if you already now how contribute your own bit of creativity!

One Term down, at the University of Oregon. It's been busy, and promises to get busier still.

I will be starting classes soon. I currently have two shows open one in Chicago (Riverside Gallery) and one in green bay(Neville). I have been working non-stop on garments( apocalypse stitch) I have two new skirts and a poncho for sale, and I am currently making a shirt/vest. Pictures will be up soon.

I will be hitting the road next week to pursue a life on the west coast. Thank you to everyone I've worked with and had the pleasure of meeting in the midwest.

Thank you to everyone to contributed to "Going Green" without you, the piece won't have been a success.
Special thanks to:
Arwen, Claire, Carol, Jen, Mali, Emily, Katherine, Patrick, Mirah, Jackie, Melissa, Myles, Allysum and many more!

I will miss my friends in chicago, more then they will ever know.
Steph. Thank you for the hug you will never remember.
Wally, thank you for the advice I may never follow, you were right.
Ron t. Keep rocking. And the meters are awesome!
Katie, we will always have the nineties.
Bill, steal some flowers for me, oh and it's your turn for a smoke break.
Sean, where'd you go?
Lucy and Desiré, fuck Azo. I'll set up your bar any time any place!
Lindsey, your hips are the perfect size.
Mihai stop complaining
Robert, very professional.
Felix, gigity.
Jamie, don't electrocute yourself.
To everyone else at Bon ap-a-cheap. My name is Rob. And thank for being my Chicago family.

In the froth and bubble of the rush hour I sit and dream over an apéritif. The sky is still the clouds motionless. I sit in the dead center of traffic stilled by the hush of a new life growing out of decay about me. My feet are touching the roots of an ageless body for which I have no name. I am in communication with the whole earth. Here I am in the womb of time and nothing will jolt me out of my stillness. One more wanderer who has found the flame of his restlessness. Here I sit in the open street composing my song. It's the song I heard as a child the song which I lost in the new world and which I would never have recovered had I not fallen like a twig into the ocean of time.

Ello everyone.
Currently my "Going Green?" piece is installed at the Building Stage for the Sketchbook 9 Festival.
Check out there website for more info. on this theater and check out my installation!
Collaboraction

Also in July I will be going to the Winnipeg Folk Arts Festival to display my "Going Green?" installation in an outdoor exhibition.
Check out the Festival:
Winnipeg Folk Arts Festival

Hello folks, I'm posting some exciting news. I've been accepted in the MFA Fibers program at the University of Oregon, I will be moving out there in June/July.

Also I'm in production mode.

Check back soon to see
"Apocalypse Knot"
my new stitchery line.

欢呼

I have a piece in an upcoming exhibit out in St. Charles.

March 21 - May 30, 2009

Reception: March 21, 2009, 6-9pm

Artists: Juan and Ricardo Compean, Mathew Paul Jinks, H. Mathis, Robere Mertens, Lindsay Obermeyer, Irene Perez, John Regan and Chris Roberts

Orleans Street Gallery presents (Inter) Action, an exhibition of artwork with an emphasis on action and participation. (Inter) Action explores the conventional relationship between the artist and the audience by blurring lines between the two and in some cases reversing roles. Contradictory to traditional exhibitions, some pieces invite the audience to trade*, touch and play, while others offer insight into more intimate performance art pieces through multimedia installations.
* Visitors to the gallery are encouraged to bring a piece of their original artwork to trade with a piece of original artwork by Chris Roberts. Traded artwork should not to exceed 24in x 24in.

Get in touch with me before next Saturday and you can ride with me out there!
Orleans Street Gallery

This weekend is the final workshop for my "Going Green" piece at ArtWorks, Please come out and show your support!
2PM-4PM Sunday
ArtWorks on Racine in Uptown just off the Wilson Stop.

Also...
Gastronaut is going into the studio this weekend to record an offical demo.
Please check out both in my Linkage page!

Be Well
Robere

Look not on her beauty now
While, carelessly, she starts to weave
such wintertime complexity.
She makes these cryptic writings grow
and it is best to disbelieve,
For you are numbed with cold and she
too beautiful in so much snow;
Though she seem gentle as a dove,
Her carelessness alone would show
It is no season for new love.

Genius is ambivalent as a sleeping herm
And incalculable as a hurricane
But the carved stone stands, paint glows,
the word is alive on the page and breathes;
Music alone with itself and its hermetic signs
Is trapped within the inane interstices
Of the stars whose harmonies spurt like rain
and surround us with the voices of a dream.
And no hands not even yours can tease
the last overtone of phrasing from the hard keys.

I've recently joined some knitting groups.. So you can expect more pics up on my website soon!

I will be working on a series of soft armor craftworks.
Among these, there will be:
Samurai Helmet
Spartan Helmet
Crusader Flat Top Helmet

My top five Hitman movies:
Panic
You Kill Me
The Professional
In Bruges
Last Man Standing

It's cold, snowy and quiet. I've posted a new track up on the Gastronaut site. Check it out. I'm hoping to record a demo soon. We still need to put together a press kit to send out. I've also posted some new work up.
The piece is called "Sweet Spot".
Have a good Holiday out there.

Ok peoples.
So I am waiting to hear back about an installation @ the Conservatory. I'm still putting together a proposal for an installation @ ESS. And I have a set location for my installation in the 162 N. State St. Residence Hall, I only await the final go ahead.
Other notes of interest:
I have recorded some addition tracks for a few Gastronaut songs. Check them out if you get the chance- Gastronaut
I will be documenting a piece I created last year called "Sweet Spot" in the coming weeks.

I've taken a internship with Collaboraction as a Production Assistant.
Collaboraction

Keep checking in! Please note I have pictures of my new Tri-Scarf prototype!

Well I'm back in Chicago, The Art on Track show went well. Check out some of the pics I have posted. I will resume work at ESS and Walk West in a couple weeks. And I am waiting to hear back about my installation in the Chicago Building Residence Hall for the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
If you're in Chicago you should give me a ring.
Best
Robo

I will be back in the studio at the Museum for the next couple of weeks.
3 New Gastronaut tracks up..
check'em out @
Gastronaut

Shows coming up...
AUG. 30th
Green Bay
5PM-9PM
Art and the Animal Opening Night Dinner.
I will be auctioning off the Earth Worm Scarf for this Show.
Check out the scarf in my Fibers section.
If interested please go to my links section and check the Nevilles Website for more info.

AUG 30th
Chicago
6PM-10PM
ART on TRACK
The Worlds Largest Mobile Art Exhibition
I will be performing a piece one of the train cars. Its a combination of Fibers and Performance... You'll have to check it out if you want to know more!

for more info check out
Art on Track

I will also be completing and installing a piece in one of the residence halls for the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
If you interested in seeing that piece make a friend living in the 7 W. Madison Building so you can get checked in, and go up to the 15th Floor Studio and look up!

Keep posted for more information regarding a Show in Feb. of 2009 as well as another installation piece completed later this year.

Thats all for now
Best
Robo

I have a few projects hopefully in the works. one is a proposed piece on a CTA train, another is an installation for one of the Residence Halls for the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

Aside from that I'm enjoying my temporary stay in Chicago.

Its Wicker Park Fest this weekend, maybe I'll see some of you out there!

Hey folks, I'll be heading south for about three weeks to find a job in the city. I will be staying in Wicker Park. I plan on attending a Melvins show while I'm in town so if anyone is interested in joining me, I'd love the company

when a butterfly leaves the safety of its cocoon, does it realize how beautiful it has become? Or does it still just see itself as a caterpillar

New recordings on the horizon. To hear some of the old tracks check out:
www.myspace.com/gastronautgo

Still working on Mando parts.
Also if you know anyone who plays bass and would like to be in a rock band....
We're in the market.

Check out my studio for the summer!

http://i284.photobucket.com/al

Well we just wrapped up a two day recording session. We were working on a Steve Mullen Project. I don't want to let to much info leak, but the project has been in development over the past couple of years and it's been exciting to see it getting fleshed out. We recorded at Rax Trax just outside of Lincoln park area in Chicago, It's a great sounding space and its pretty relaxed, i think there is more interns there than you can shake a stick at but the place runs pretty efficiently. Well back to GB.

When I get back I will resume work on my Topo Poncho, as well as start working on my x-ray paintings, and I've got to put together an installation proposal for later this summer.

If you have any questions as to what I'm working on currently please don't hesitate to email me. Best
Robo

Heading up to Green Bay WI to work on art in the Neville Public Museum's Studio 210 Artist Residency Program. I will also be recording a demo the the newly formed band Gastronaut. For more info on either of these check out my linkage page.
Best
Robo