About

For twenty years, Los Angeles painter Robert Standish had been abstracting reality by altering his own powerful and moving photorealistic paintings of daily life. Seven years ago, Standish shifted away from constructing life-like replicas of the world to delving deeper into the unconscious unknown and new psychological depths.

For Standish, the move into abstraction developed as a confluence of Abstract Expressionism and interest in cosmology and topography, and psychological theory. He uses a wet-on-wet technique, applying thick curls and rippling lines of acrylic enamels on top of one …