Confluence - Sculpture by Roberto Bertoia

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Artist Link: Roberto Bertoia

Roberto Bertoia explores site, context, material, and craft as it relates to his investigation of isolation, absence, and presence – at the intersection of sculpture, landscape, architecture, and design. Bertoia, Associate Professor at Cornell, has taught sculpture and drawing for 30 years. Bertoia has exhibited in national and international juried and invitational exhibitions. He has been commissioned by Winston-Salem State University and the University of Binghamton. Roberto Bertoia completed his BFA in sculpture in 1978 at the University of Windsor-Ontario, and his MFA in sculpture at Southern Illinois University in 1982.

Curated by Josh Owen, Program Chair, Professor, Industrial Design, School of Design, RIT College of Art and Design, and former student of Roberto Bertoia.

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Tall and narrow sculptural form made of pieces of wood stock stacked in a ladder shape with four box forms at the top.
View through the main glass window and door entrance to gallery with text on wall ' Confluence, Sculpture by Roberto Betoia'. Wood stacked form sculptures in foreground and background.

View of series of six stands each displaying a wood stacked form sculpture.

View from behind reception desk across to the opposite white wall. A long zig zag shaped natural walnut wood sculpture in foreground on counter and a similar form in front of the wall.

Two slender vertical sculptures with four long thin wood supports with wooden assemblage of wood blocks in the center. Exhibition text on wall.

Three floor standing sculptures on display in front of floor to ceiling windows. Each sculpture is vertical with four long thin wood supports with wooden assemblage of wood blocks in the center.

Blurred image of man walking past three floor standing sculptures on display in front of floor to ceiling windows. Each sculpture is vertical with four long thin wood supports with wooden assemblage of wood blocks in the center.

View across gallery floor to large white exhibition wall. Seven floor standing vertical sculptures displayed on low stands.

Image of four objects - a modern black round table, a metal cage form with a suspended abstract human form, a wire mesh chair, a metal dandelion-gone-to-seed metal sculpture.

Floor standing vertical sculpture with four long thin wood supports with wooden assemblage of wood blocks in the center.

Floor standing vertical sculpture with four long thin wood supports with wooden assemblage of wood blocks in the center.

Floor standing vertical sculpture with four long thin wood supports with wooden assemblage of wood blocks in the center.

A metal cage form with a suspended abstract human form with wall text.

Exhibition graphic with text ' Confluence' and image of tall and narrow sculptural form made of pieces of wood stock stacked in a ladder shape with four box forms at the top.

Group of five people standing next to Floor standing vertical sculpture with four long thin wood supports with wooden assemblage of wood blocks in the center.