Robert Bienstock

I use near-parallel lines to explore theoretical spaces--spatial, mathematical, emotional, and philosophical.  I lay them down with paint and ink, pen and brush, on monotype or painted backgrounds. My lines explore concepts such as the intersection of order and disorder, and relationships between independently coherent spaces.   

Based in New Haven, Connecticut, Robert is a member of the Kehler Liddell Gallery in Westville, CT.  He has also shown his art at River Street Gallery in Fair Haven CT; Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition in Red Hook Brooklyn (Certificate of Recognition); Catalyst Gallery in Beacon NY; City Lights Gallery in Bridgeport CT; offices at 2 Whitney Grove Square and Janney Montgomery Scott in New Haven CT and the NE Medical Group building in North Haven; as well as at New Haven’s City Wide Open Studios.

When not creating lines, he provides in-house legal support to Yale University’s research scientists, negotiating contracts and handling compliance issues.   

Realignment May 25- June 25, 2023

Robert Bienstock’s abstract art focuses on space-filling linear patterns and their intersections.  Bienstock observes that such patterns abound in the world around us and reside within our memories and thoughts.  His work aims to trigger resonances with the viewer’s lived experiences. 

Realignment features Bienstock's linework on rectangular wood panels.  Inspired in part by Chinese and Japanese landscape paintings, these elongated pieces guide the viewer’s eye through diverse terrains united by common modes of expression.  They elaborate elements of Bienstock early pen-and-ink work, realigning his core artistic vocabulary with his more recent modes of expression.

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