This is the 17th post in our Artist of the Week series.
Robert Indiana was born as Robert Clark in 1928 in Indiana. At a young age he became interested in art and visual imagery. He attended Herron School of Art in Indianapolis, the Muson-Proctor Institute in Utica and he received his degree from the Art Institute in Chicago.
He moved to New York City in 1954 and began working with geometric pop designs. His work was sometimes considered to be controversial but his art still gained wide popularity. It was in 1962 that he held his first solo exhibition. It was around this time that he began sculpting as much as he was painting and he began sculpting geometric sayings in much the same way he painted them.
His most famous work is the work love written on a boxed background. It has become so popular that he has recreated the design numerous times in both sculpture and paint form. It was even used by the United States Post Office as a stamp in 1973.
It was in 2008 that Robert Indiana found himself in the spotlight again as he created a sculpture of the word HOPE done in much the same way as his LOVE sculptures. He then donated all proceeds from the sale of all the reproductions to the Obama campaign. He raised over $1,000,000.
To learn more about Robert Indiana visit Rogallery.com and MetroArtWork.
