BOB DILWORTH      ARTIST STATEMENT

  Dilworth's figurative work has long attempted to negotiate the connection

between experience and the contradictions governing that experience.

His series of installations planned for the next few years will deal specifically

with race, culture, heritage and the way this nation deals with ethnicity.

But they will do so metaphorically, and gesture aesthetically to art historical

exemplars of similarly uncertain, wound up, even outright xenophobic times.

"The setting is the city, a place of promise, possibility, and excitement,

but also of danger and annihilation, a place where the pressure of race,

environment, and circumstance cannot be escaped." In Bob Dilworth's

environment-driven characterization, "Every identity is unstable.

No one is free from himself or from others."

Bob Dilworth has shown extensively, especially in Rhode Island,

in both solo and group exhibitions. His work was mostly recently

exposed at the start of 2006 in a one-person exhibition at the

Newport Art Museum. His art has been reviewed regularly in the

New England press as well as in Florida, New York, Virginia, Illinois, Minnesota,

Missouri and Texas. Dilworth's work is widely collected, from the

Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence to the Fairmont Hotel

Corporation, San Francisco. He teaches Painting, Drawing and African-American

Art History at the University of Rhode Island.

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