Bio: Rob Tarbell is an artist who currently resides in Virginia. His most recent work, Smoke Rings, has an almost craft like quality. Common images in this work include animals and people. Tarbell use smoke and paper to create unique lasting images. As blogger BMore Art writes, Tarbell's work, "intends to balance accident with control and give permanence to the ephemeral."
Personal Opinion: Overall I like Tarbell's work both for its unique use of materials and painstaking process, but also for the image created. The ghostly elephants, zebras, and horses are entertaining and haunting. Unlike the work of Matt Lively, Tarbell does not utilize specific icons or symbols, but realizes on a unique use of materials. His work is abstract bordering on non-objective. I like the aesthetic of the work, the wispy, fleeting quality of his images, but find it difficult to see a wrote or specific meaning within the works. His meaning and purposed for creating each work is more difficult to guess at and define.
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