Robert Baribeau

Robert Baribeau is an American abstract painter whose dynamic, sumptuous paintings express the visceral relationship between the act of painting and the processes of the natural world. Baribeau has long been on the vanguard of exploring the influence of landscape on contemporary abstraction.

“Baribeau is primed for intense colors, an ever-changing spectrum of vibrant hues that distinguish these paintings; colors like nature explode. Night, day, winter, spring, find their way onto canvases…Interwoven within the paint are bits of collage: he uses cloth, wallpaper, and maps, all tactile visual reminders of place. These are kinds of topological maps of the terrain mixed with the effects of weather, the absolute pure white of the first snowstorm of the season, or the orange-reds of sunsets in the fall.”

—Art critic Michael Klein, writing for New American Paintings