Robert Gutierrez’s current work bears an aura of desperation in epic scale, signaling out-of-control environments where an ambiguous exchange of power and domination take place. Quasi-spiritual landmarks dot the landscape as if to warn of poisonous elements within the cracks and crevices of the overall terrain. Shifting images that seem familiar metaphorically enact a transformation of progress gone haywire.

Born 1972 in Manila, Philippines, Gutierrez holds a BFA from Otis Parsons, Los Angeles. He lives and works in San Francisco, California.

Recent exhibitions include Deitch Projects, New York; Stephen Wirtz Gallery, New Langton Arts, Bucheon Gallery, Southern Exposure and Gregory Lind Gallery, San Francisco, CA; Galerie Ze De Bois, Lisbon, Portugal, and The Currier Museum of Art, Manchester, NH.

I propose a landscape populated with all the pleasures and fears of the collective mind. In the forefront of our concerns exists this undeniable fact that there is a transparency and dislocation in our sense of place. My intention is to reflect the questions of this shaky ground of the time. I want to impart a shift in perception where transformation can happen in a fleeting moment.

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