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Artist Statement
BACKGROUND
Robert Lingle, born in Florida, spent most of his youth in northern New Mexico. After graduating from the University of New Mexico with a BA in liberal arts, he became a pilot for the United States Navy and eventually for United Airlines. He took early retirement from the latter in order to devote full time to painting. He moved to El Paso, Texas, in 1992, where he shares a life of painting with his artist wife, Elizabeth Galvin.
ART EDUCATION
From 1976 through 1978, while flying for United Airlines, Mr. Lingle studied drawing and painting with Michael R. Christiana and Dale P. Marchione at Northwestern Connecticut Community College in Winsted, Connecticut. He resumed his formal art education in 1986, the year of his early retirement from United Airlines, at the Silvermine School of Art in New Canaan, Connecticut. He studied drawing and painting there with Ms. Jakki Kouffman of New York City until moving to El Paso in 1992.
Since most of Mr. Lingle's formal art training consisted of painting models and landscapes, his earliest paintings began with an exploration of this subject matter. However, these paintings invariable evolved into imaginative interpetations of what he saw. Many of his latest paintings are exclusively works of his imagination.
COLLECTIONS
Mr. Lingle's paintings are in various collections in Texas, New Mexico, Connecticut, New York, Montana, Oregon, and Chihuahua, Mexico.
Exhibitions
2008
El Paso, TX
Arts International Annual Exhibition 2008, Jurors: Peggi-Kroll Roberts, Angels Camp, CA; Frederick Somers, Northfield, Minnesota.
2007
El Paso, TX
Arts International Annual Exhibit 2007, (Jurors: Bob Rohm, Texas, and Lee Rommel, Santa Fe, New Mexico).
2006
El Paso, Texas
Arts International Annual Exhibit 2006 (Jurors: JULIE SASSE, Curator---Tucson Museum of Art; BONNIE POSELLI, Pleine-Aire Impressionist, Salt Lake City)
2002
El Paso, Texas
Arts International Annual Exhibit 2002, (Jurors: NITA LELAND, Dayton, Ohio, and CAMILE PRZEWODEK, Petaluma, California).
2000
El Paso, Texas
Arts International Annual Exhibit 2000 (Jurors: PAUL MILOSEVICH, artist; JOHN R. VINCENT, art coordinator for state of New Mexico).
1998
El Paso, Texas
Seven Plus Seven Exhibit, Bridge Center for Contemporary Art
1997
Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua, Mexico
Two-person exhibit (with Elizabeth S. Galvin) at Museo de Arqueologia, Juarez, Mexico
1995
El Paso, Texas
Two-person exhibition (with Elizabeth S. Galvin) at Artspace 2300 Art Gallery
1995
El Paso, Texas
Arts International Annual Exhibit 1995 (Jurors: ERIC MICHAELS, artist; DEAN MITCHELL, artist).
1994
El Paso, Texas
Arts International Annual Exhibit 1994 ( Jurors: G. JOSEPH MOODY, artist; WILIAM C. HOOK, artist); Honorable Mention.
1992
New Canaan, CT
43rd Art of the Northeast USA (Juror: ELIZA RATHBONE, Chief Curator of the Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C.).
1992
New Canaan, CT
SecondAnnual Juried Student Exhibition, Silvermine School of Art (Juror: W. RICHARD LYTLE, Professor of Painting and Director of Graduate Studies in Painting, Yale University School of Art).
1991
New Canaan, CT
First Annual Juried Student Exhibition, Silvermine School of Art (Jurors: faculty).
1989
New Canaan, CT
40th Art of the USA Exhibit (Juror: HELENE POSNER, Curator of Contemporary Art, National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, D.C.)
1988
New Canaan, CT
39th Art of the Northeast USA Exhibit (Juror: LOWRY SIMS, Associate Curator of 20th Century Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City).
1978
Torrington, CT
30th Torrington Artists Association Spring Exhibit.
1977
Torrington, CT
29th Torrington Artists Association Spring Exhibit.
OTHER EXHIBITIONS
2002-2003
El Paso, Texas
Loan of 12 paintings to Bridge Center for Contemporary Art