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Robert Standish: Anti-Sporadic
by Peter Frank

Long known as a painter of images, Robert Standish has transformed himself in the past several years into a producer of paintings. That is, he has turned to the physical, even visceral, nature of paint itself to define the character, and certainly the appearance, of his artwork. As a result, the paintings Standish has created – most particularly in the last five years – rely primarily on concrete evidence of material and its manipulation. There is nothing illusory about them.

Or is there? The qualities of the paints Standish employs, and the forms …