Robert Venosa

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Robert Venosa is an American artist living in Boulder, Colorado, USA. He studied with what are termed the New Masters. He has been associated with a number of well known artistic and musical persons. His artworks reside in collections over the world.

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Robert Venosa has been exhibited worldwide and is represented in major collections, including those of noted museums, rock stars and European aristocracy. In addition to painting, sculpting and film design (pre-sketches and conceptual design for the movie Dune, and Fire in the Sky for Paramount Pictures, and the upcoming Race for Atlantis for IMAX), he has recently added computer art to his creative menu. His work has been the subject of three books, as well as being featured in numerous publications - most notably Omni (magazine) - and on a number of CD covers, including those of Santana (Abraxas) and Kitaro. He is a member of the Society for the Art of Imagination, Surreal Art Collective and the Labyrinthe group.

He first studied under Mati Klarwein in New York. In this time his studio was visited by such celebrities as Jimi Hendrix, Miles Davis, Jackie Kennedy and Timothy Leary.

Venosa then went on to study with Ernst Fuchs in Vienna.

In the early 1970s he moved to Cadaques, Spain where he befriended Salvador Dalí. Here he introduced his other friend H.R. Giger to Dali.

He was friends with the late Terence McKenna (November 16, 1946 – April 3, 2000) whom also shared a common interest in Entheogens. Entheogens have inspired a number of his works. Venosa has indicated that these experiences have helped develop the distinctive style and content of his artwork.

Venosa currently travels the globe with his partner Martina Hoffmann, teaching their painting technique. The technique is a derivative of what Venosa learned from his teachers. His technique differs in the material used for the underpainting (Caesin verses Egg Tempera), but largely follows the same processes.

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  • 1978 - Robert Venosa: Manas Manna (Big "O" Publishing) ISBN 0905664027
  • 1991 - Robert Venosa: Noospheres (Pomegranate Communications Inc,US) ISBN 0876548176
  • 1999 - Robert Venosa: Illuminatus (with Terence McKenna, Ernst Fuchs, H. R. Giger, and Mati Klarwein) (Craftsman House) ISBN 90-5703-272-4
  • 2007 - Metamorphosis (beinArt) ISBN 978-0-9803231-0-8

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