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ROBERT YARBER

BORN: 1948, Dallas, Texas

EDUCATION

1974 Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge Louisiana, M.F.A. 1967-71 Cooper Union College, New York, New York, B.F.A.

TEACHING

1994 The Pennsylvania State University, Assistant Professor 1983 University of California, Berkekey, California Visiting Lecturer University of Texas, Austin, Texas Lecturer 1982 University of California, Berkeley, California Visiting Painting Instructor University of Texas, Austin, Texas Visiting Lecturer

AWARDS

1985 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship Grant 1983 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship Grant

ONE-MAN EXHIBITIONS

2009 “Calaveras Gnosticos,” Sonnabend Gallery, New York

2007 “Sortie: The Demonological Survey,” Kyungpook National University Art Museum, Daegu, Korea

1999 Modernism, San Francisco, CA Marella Arte Contemporanea, Sarnico, Italy

1998 Sonnabend Gallery, New York, NY “Robert Yarber: New Monotypes published by Landfall Press”, Quartet Editions, NewYork, NY

1996 Marella Arte Contemporanea, Sarnico, Italy

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Sergio Tossi Arte Contemporanea, Prato, Italy

1995 Sonnabend Gallery, New York, NY "Night World", Nevada Institute of Contemporary Art, Las Vegas, NV Patricia Faure Gallery, Santa Monica, CA

1994 Galerie Lehmann, Lausanne, Switzerland

1993 Sonnabend Gallery, New York, NY Julie Saul Gallery, New York, NY

1992 Casino de Knokke, Knokke-Heist, Belgium Galerie Van de Weghe, Brussels Galleria in Arco, Torino, Italy

1991 Galerie Faust, Geneva "Robert Yarber: Photographs", Lieberman & Saul, New York "Robert Yarber: Artifice and Escapes", The Frank Martin Gallery, Muhlenberg College, Allentown, PA

1990 "Climax of the Commonplace", Sonnabend Gallery, New York, NY Galerie Langer, Fain, Paris

1989 Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA "Robert Yarber Paintings: 1980-1988", Palmer Museum of Art Penn State University, University Park, PA; Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA

1987 Asher/Faure Gallery, Los Angeles, CA Greene Gallery, Coconut Grove, FL Thomas Cohn Arte Contemporanea, Rio de Janieiro, Brasil Sonnabend Gallery, New York, NY

1985 Vollum College Center Gallery, Reed College, Portland, Oregon Sonnabend Gallery, New York, NY

1984 Mattingly Baker Gallery, Dallas, TX Southwestern University, Georgetown, TX Asher Faure Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

1983 Steven Lieber Gallery, San Francisco, CA

1981 Simon Lovinsky Gallery, Los Angeles, CA Dominican College, San Rafael, CA Simon Lovinsky Gallery, San Francisco, CA

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1974 University of New Orleans, New Orleans

1970 Bowery Gallery, New York, NY

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GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2009 “Les annees 80” at Le, Magasin, Grenoble, France

2008 “Digitalia, Intimacy in the Hyperreal.” Deborah Colton Gallery, Houston, Texas, Jan. 12 through March 1, 2008. (Two digital images on paper.)

2007 “Fall Season,” Group Show, Jack the Pelican Gallery Brooklyn, New York ,“ September 7 to October 7, 2007. Group Show, (Two Paintings.)

2006 Feast,” Group Show, HUB-Robeson Center, Penn State University, UniversityPark, September 21-dec. 13, 2006 “The Hedonistic Imperative,” Deborah Colten Gallery, Houston, Texas

2005 “A Better Tomorrow” Curated by Saul Ostrow, Cleveland Institute of Art, Oct.22, “The Hedonistic Imperative,” guest-curated by Graham Guerra. “The show is a tribute to David Pearce’s 1996 online manifesto of the same name, which targets the elimination of suffering in all sentient beings through genetic engineering, nanotechnology and neuroscience. “The world’s last unpleasant experience,” he writes, “will be a precisely dateable event.” Jack the Pelican Gallery, Brooklyn, New York, and Jan.15- Feb. 13, 2005. (Traveling with catalog, Dates and venues forthcoming.) Group Show: “ The City: Contemporary Views of the Built Environment.” Lehman College, CUNY, Bronx, New York. February 8- May 14, 2005 (Cat.) Group Show: “Modern, Contemporary, and Latin American Art,” Bonham’s & Butterfield's,San Francisco, CA., Apr. 16- May 1, 2005 Group Show: PSU SOVA Faculty exhibit, Palmer Museum, University Park Campus, PSU, Summer, 2005

2004 “Art and Illusion: Selections from the Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation,” Frederick R. Weisman Museum of Art, Pepperdine University, Malibu, CA. August 24 through October 24, 2004 “25th Anniversary Exhibit,” Modernism Gallery, San Francisco, California. September 9- October 30. 2004 “In A Voting Year, “ An exhibition of artwork by School of Visual Arts Fine Arts Faculty, Zoller Gallery, The School of Visual Arts at Penn State, University Park campus, October 18th -November 2, 2004. “URGENT!: An exhibition of contemporary art and cultural paraphernalia.” Scott Pfaffman Gallery, New York, NY, Oct 23rd - Nov 2nd 2004. “Dream or Nightmare: Images of Air and Space in Contemporary Art”. Asheville Art Museum. Dec5,2003- Feb. 8, 2004. Three paintings in a six person show. Featured painting (card, advertising,)

2003 Group Show: “ The Burbs,” DFN Gallery . June 4- August29, 2003. Painting: “Woman with Hose,” 2003, 38x68”, oil/canvas

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2002 “From Pop to Now: Selections from the Sonnabend Collection,” Curated by Antonio Homem at The Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery, Skidmore College, Sarasota Springs, New York. ( Catalog.) June 21- September 29, 2002. (

Travelling Exhibition.) “Arte a Palazzo. Oraziana 2002,” curated by Otillio Lotinni, Prof. Dott. Horace’s Villa, Licenza, Italy. (Catalogue.) Paintings inspired by the poetry of Horace. Exhibit commemorates the restoration of the villa of the ancient Roman poet, Horace. May 26- September 7, 2002 “Visions: The First Ten Years. Selections from the Galleria Valentina Moncada. Acanto Blu, Palermo, Sicily

2001 Bologna Art Fair, Bologna, Italy “Visions: The First Ten Years,”Photography, (Catalog Forthcoming.) Galleria Valentina Moncada. Rome, Italy

2000 Bologna Art Fair

1999 “Views From the Edge of the World,” Marlborough Gallery, New York “Zero-G: When Gravity Becomes Form,” Whitney Museum of American Art at Champion, Stamford, CT.

1998 “Frightful Paint”, Maatschappij Arti et Amicitiae, Amsterdam, Netherlands

1996 "Shot - Una Visione Americana," Valentina Moncada, Rome, Italy. "Fifteen Artists," Patricia Faure Gallery, Santa Monica, CA. "Epitaphs," Edward Throp Gallery, New York, NY. "The Sonnabend Collection," Deichtorhalle, Hamburg, Germany

1994 "The World of Tomorrow", Thomas Solomon's Garage, Los Angeles, CA "Love in the Ruins", Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA Sonnabend Gallery, New York, NY

1993 "Wake-up Call", Perforance Space 122, NY "The Flourescent Conscience", Galerie Pfefferle, Munich "Drawings: 30th Anniversary Exhibition", Leo Castelli Gallery, NY

1992 "American Art of the 80's", Museo d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto, Trento, Italy "Illumination", Pfizer Inc, New York "In The Looking Glass: Contemporary Narrative Painting", Mint Museum of Art, Charlotte, NC "Bedroom Eyes: Room with a View", Main Art Gallery, California State University at Fullerton, Fullerton, CA "Troubled Waters", Rockland Center for the Arts, West Nyack, NY

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1991 "Visions, Fantasies and Mind Wanderings", Lintas Worldwide, NY "Contemporary Surrealism", Center for the Visual Arts, Summit, NJ "In the Looking Glass: Contemporary Narrative Painting", The Mint Museum, Charlotte, NC "Art of the 1980s: Selections from the Collection of the Eli Broad Family Foundation", Duke University Museum of Art, Durham, NC "de-persona", The Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA "Selection", FAE, Musee d'Art Contemporain, Lausanne, Switzerland

1990 "New Work by Night", Bruce Helinder Gallery, NY "In the Realm of the Plausible", curated by J. Yau. Shea and Becker Gallecy, New York, NY "Mystery + Dreams", Dorsky Gallery, NY "Northwest by Southwest", Palm Springs Desert Museum; Palm Springs, CA; Yellowstone Art Center, Billings, MO; Western Gallery, Western Washington University, Bellingham, WA; Sarah Campbell Blaffer Gallery, University of Houston, Houston, TX "California A-Z and Return", The Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, OH "Robert Yarber and McDermott & McGough", Improvvisazione Prima, Galleria d'Arte, Trento "Art What Thou Eat: Images of Food in American Art", Edith C. Blum Art Institute, Bard College; New York Historical Society

1989 "Horn of Plenty", Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Holland "Unstable Universe", Asher/Faure Gallery, Los Angeles, CA "New Work By Gallery Artists", Sonnabend Gallery, New York, NY "Painting Beyond the Death of Painting", Curated by Donald Kuspit, Kuznetsky Most Exhibition Hall, Moscow, USSR "Social Fictions", Tom Tavelli Gallery, Aspen, CO Frederick Wiseman Collection, Neuberger Museum, Purchase, NY

1988 "Recent American Pastels", Christian A. Johnson Memorial Gallery, Middlebury College, Middlebury, VT "Collection Sonnabend", Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid; CAPC, Musee d'Art Contemporain, Bordeaux, France; Hamburger Bahnhoff Berlin, West Germany; Galleria Nazionale D'Arte Moderna, Roma; Museo d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Trento; Musee Rath, Geneva; Sezon Museum of Art, Tokyo; The Miyagi Museum of Art, Sendai, Japan; The Fukuyama Museum of Art, Hiroshima, Japan; The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto "Symbolism-Force and Spirit", Dorsky Gallery, New York, NY "Narrative Art", Mark Twain Gallery, St. Louis, MO

1987 "Movietone Muse", One Penn Plaza, New York "Panoramas & Prospects", Holly Solomon Gallery, New York "Private Expressions: Personal Experiences", Stamford Museum & Nature Center,

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Stamford, CT "Lust one of the seven deadlies", Curated by Philip Tsiaras, M-13 Gallery, New York "Working Drawings", Korn Gallery, Drew University, Madison, NJ "Selections from the Frederick R. Weisman Collection", The Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD; Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA; Walker Arts Center, Minneapolis, MN; Birmingham Museum of Art, AL; Norton Gallery and School of Art, West Palm Beach, FL; Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, CO

1986 "NYC - New York", Delaware Art Museum, Delaware; Philadelphia (March 7 - April 27) "Artificial Paradise", Asher/Faure, Los Angeles, California (April 19 - May 17) "The Texas Transfer", The Johnson Gallery, University of New Mexico, Las Lomas, NE (May 3 - June 22) "Boston Collects: Contemporary Painting and Sculpture", Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA "Painting and Sculpture Today 1986", Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, IN. "Five Painters: New York, A New Generation", Segal, Steinberg Gallery, Montreal, Canada "The Watermelon Show", Gallery Hirondelle, New York, NY, (June 28-July 26) "Il Progetto Domestico", Triennale Di Milano, Milano, Italy "Selections from the Frederick Weisman Collection", Centre National d'Art Contemporain, Paris, France "Art as Toys", First Street Forum, St. Louis, Missouri

1985 "Biennial Exhibition 1985", Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (March 13/21 - June 2/9) "Texas Currents Part", San Antonio Art Institute, San Antonio, Texas

1984 "Crime and Punishment", Triton Museum of Art, Santa Clara, CA (February 11 - April 1 - Catalogue) "Modern Romances", Reece Bullen Gallery, Humboldt State University, Arcata, California and San Jose' Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose', California (February 19 - March 16 - Brochure) "Outside New York", The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, New York. (June 2 - July 15) Travel in U.S.A. under the auspices of The Art Museum Association of America through Spring 1986 - Catalogue "Current Expressions", Fuller Goldeen Gallery, San Francisco, California (June 6 - July 7) "Paradise Lost/Paradise Regained: American Visions of the New Decade", The 41st Venice Biennale, Pavilion, Venice, Italy (June 10 - September 30-Catalogue) "The Human Condition: SFMMA Biennial III", San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California (June 28 - August 26 - Catalogue)

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"Sun and Surf", One Market Plaza, San Francisco,California (organized by Art Programs, Inc. - July 9 - August 3 Brochure) "Drawing Show", Tracey Garet Gallery, New York, NY "Five Texans in Venice", University of Texas Art Gallery, San Antonio, Texas "The New Portrait", P.S.1. Long Island City, New York "New Galleries of the Lower East Side", Artist Space, New York, NY "Romantic Painting", Tracey Garet Gallery, New York, NY "what's Happening: Contemporary Art From California, Oregon and Washington", Alternative Museum, New York "Work From the Lower East Side", Larry Gagosian Gallery, Los Angeles, CA "Strange", Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington Seattle

1983 "Ceci Nest Pas Le Surrealism: California: Idioms of Sarrealism", Fisher Gallery, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California -(Part II, January 20 February 24 - Catalogue) - Travel of satellite exhibition in California and New York, January - November 1984 "Attention: California Artists", The Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA (March 30 - May 1 Brochure) "The Impolite Figure", Southern Exposure Gallery, San Francisco, CA (in cooperation with Bannam Place Exhibition Space - June 28 - July 31 Catalogue) "Robert Yarber and Patrick Morrison", San Francisco Art Insitute, San Francisco, CA (September) "Robert Yarber, Sarah Canright and Peter Saul", Patrick Gallery, Austin, Texas (November) "Faculty Show", University of Texas, Austin, TX "Figurative Drawing in Texas", San Antonio Art Insitute, San Antonio, TX "Bodies and Souls", Marisa Del Re Gallery, New York, NY (organized by Artists' Choice Museum - Catalogue) "Five from Austin", Waco Art Center, Waco, Texas

1982 "New Bay Area Painting and Sculpture", San Francisco Art Institute Galleries, San Francisco, CA (January 8 - February 8 Catalogue) "California Video", Anthology Film Archives, New York, NY (February 13) "East Coast-West Coast", Fashion Moda, Bronx, New York "Emerging Northern California Artists", Orange County Center for Contemporary Arts, Santa Ana, CA (Catalogue)

1981 "Humor in Art", Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, California "Locations", California State University, San Bernardino, California (October 9 - November 4 Catalogue) "Fashion Moda", Galeria de la Raza, San Francisco, CA (in cooperation with 80 Langton Street and Pro Arts Foundation)

1980 "John Alberts and Bob Yarber: Painting and Drawing Blackfish Gallery, Portland,

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1979 University of Dallas, Dallas, TX "Bay Area Artist Exhibition and Sale", The Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA

1977 Open Studio, San Francisco, CA

1975 George Godenow Gallery, Dallas, TX

1971 Bowery Gallery, New York "Painterly Realism", Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, MA (Travel in U.S.A. under the auspices of the American Federation of Arts)

1969 Bowery Gallery, New York

1967 "Texas Painting and Sculpture Exhibitions", (juried by Richard Diebenkorn), Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, Dallas, TX

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BIBLIOGRAPHY - BROCHURES

1984 Suzaan Boettger, "Modern Romances", San Jose', San Jose' Institute of Contemporary Art (Ill. Double Suicide, 1982) Michele Bell, "Sun and Surf", San Francisco, One Market Plaza

1983 Christina Orr-Cahall, "Attention: California Artists", Oakland, The Oakland Museum (Ill. Bana, 1982)

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BIBLIOGRAPHY – CATALOGUES

1996 Lodola, Francesco. Robert Yarber . Marella Arte Contemporanea, Italy.

1993 Crone, Rainer & David Moos. The Florescent Conscious . Galerie Pfefferle, Munich.

1992 Leach, Mark, Richard & Jeanne Willette. In The Looking Glass . Mint Museum of Art, Charlotte, NC Watts, Patricia. Bedroom Eyes: Room with a View . California State at Fullerton, Fullerton, CA Beatrice, Luca. Robert Yarber . Galleria In Arco, Torino, Italy

1991 Linhares, Philip, E. de-persona . The Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA Riley II, Charles, A. Selection FAE, Lausanne

1990 Weintraub, Linda. Art What Thou Eat: Images of Food in American Art , Published by Meyer Bell Limited, Mount Kisco, NY, (repro. p. 189, "Untitled (Diners with Thrown Forks) Yau, John. In the Realm of the Plausible . Shea & Becker Gallery, (repro. "Expenditure of Excess") Robert Yarber + McDermott & McGough , Improvvisazione Prima, Galleria d'Arte, Trento Fitz Gibbon, John. California A-Z And Return , The Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, OH

1989 Shaman, Sanford. Robert Yarber Paintings: 1980-1988 , Palmer Museum of Art, Penn State University, Osterhauf, Grosse. Horn of Plenty , Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam

1987 Halpern, Nora and Henry T. Hopkins. Selections from the Frederick R. Weisman Collection, Los Angeles, CA

1986 Painting and Sculpture Today , Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, IN. (Ill. Man on Floor, 1984). Carlozzi, Annette. 50 Texas Artists: A Critical Selection of Painters and Sculptors Working in Texas , Chronicle Books, San Francisco, CA 1985 1985 Biennial Exhibition , New York: Whitney Museum of American Art (Ill. Big Fall, 1984; Corridor, 1984)

1984 Crime and Punishment , Santa Clara: Triton Museum of Art Robert Atkins, "What's Happening: Contemporary Art from California, Oregon and Washington", New York: Alternative Museum (Ill. Poolside Bar, 1983) Gumpert, Lynn and Ned Rifkin, "New York: New York/Outside New York", New York: The New Museum of Contemporary Art (Ill. Face Slap, 1983; Big Drop, 1984; Last Embrace, 1984; Sleeping Couple, 1984)

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Henry Hopkins et al., The Human Condition: SFMMA Biennial III , San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (Ill. Bana, 1983) Tucker, Marcia. Paradise Lost/Paradise Regained:American Visions of the New Decade , New York: New Museum of Contemporary Art and Washington D.C.: United States Information Agency (Ill. Night Pool,1980; Double Suicide,1983) Bruce, Chris. Strange , Seattle: The University of Washington, Seattle (Ill. Falling Embrace, 1984) Carlozzi, Annette DiMieo, " New York by Austin Artists Austin: Laguna Gloria Art Museum (Ill. Corridor, 1984)

1983 The Impolite Figure , San Francisco: Bannam Place Exhibition Space and Southern Exposure Gallery (Ill. Double Suicide, 1982) John Yau, John. Bodies and Souls , New York: The Artists' Choice Museum Maria de Alcuaz, Ceci Nest Pas Le Surrealisms: California: Idioms of Surrealism , Los Angeles: University of Southern California and Art in California Books (Ill. Poolside Bar, 1983)

1982 Brown, Christopher and Judith Dunham, New Bay Area Painting and Sculpture , San Francisco: San Francisco Art Institute Galleries Emerging Northern California Artists , Santa Ana, CA: Orange County Center for Contemporary Arts

1981 Woodford, Don. Locations , San Bernardino: California State College (Ill. Large Pool, 1979)

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BIBLIOGRAPHY - ARTICLES

1999 Heartney, Eleanor. “Robert Yarber at Sonnabend.” Art in America , February, p. 111.

1998 Arthur, Rose. “Robert Yarber.” Artbyte , August – September, p. 15.

1994 Pagel, David. "Taking a Glimpse Into 'The World of Tomorrow'." The Los Angeles Times , Feb 24. ..."The Horror: Robert Yarber (artist)...All Around Esthetes." Artforum , Vol. XXXII, No. 8, pp. 11-12

1993 Mulatero, Ivana. "Robert Yarber," Juliet Art Magazine , n. 61, Feb./Mar. pp. 34-35. ..."Art: Heartbreak Hotels," The New Yorker , Sept. 13, p. 16. Newhall, Edith. "Galleries," New York Magazine , Sept. 13, pp. 58-63. Cavanaugh, Tim. "Night Shift," Manhattan Spirit , Sept. 23, Vol. 9, No. 37, p. 21. Napack, Jonathan. "High (Nancy Kissinger) and Low (Mark Kostabi) Turn Out for Alex," The New York Observer , Sept. 27, p. 22. Aletti, Vince. "Voice Choices." The Village Voice , 12 October, p. 72 Haus, Mary. "Robert Yarber: Sonnabend, Julie Saul." ArtNews , Nov., Vol. 92, No. 9 Burchard, Christian. "Kunstlerportrats zu Open Art Robert Yarber.", Kritic , 4/93, pp. 34-38

1992 ..."Who was Grand Canyon Dream Weaver?" New York Magazine , Mar. 30, p. 10. Tolkin, Michael. "Among the Dead," Artforum , Sept. pp. 74-75. Curtis, Cathy. "Strange Bedfellows at Cal State Fullerton," Los Angeles Times Calendar (Orange County), pp. F2 + F5.

1991 Haus, Mary. "Robert Yarber's Unbearable Lightness of Being," Artnews , Jan. pp. 134-139. Raynor, Vivian. "Seven Thought-Provoking Approaches to Surrealism Today," , Apr. 28, Sect. 2, p. 14. Watkins, Eileen. "Psychological roots, fears make up "Surrealism' show," The Sunday Star-Ledger , May 12. Scasserra, Michael, P. "Surrealism exhibit at NJCVA showcases contemporary artists," The Independent Press , Wed. May 15, p. 17 Panicelli, Ida. "A Rare Kind of Dread," Artforum , Summer, pp.76-79 Thompson, Frank. "Returning to art that tells a story," Asheville Citizen-Times , Aug. 4, pp.1L + 8L Hagen, Charles. "Robert Yarber," The New York Times, Oct. 4, p. C24 Liebmann, Lisa. "Robert Yarber at Lieberman & Saul Gallery," Artforum , Nov. p. 134 Welker, Janie. "Robert Yarber Throws Light on tawdry material world," The Express , Oct. 25, pp. D8+D9 Higgins, Tim. "Art between dreams and nightmares," a.m. Magazine , pp. D1+D5

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"'Shooting' The Breeze: Two Painters Talk About Taking Pictures," Cover , Nov. pp. 24-25 The Philadelphia Inquirer , Thursday, Nov. 7, p. 3-D Dungan, Sebastian. "Flying dreams," Venice , Nov., pp.78+79

1990 Schjeldahl, Peter. "Painted Words," 7 Days , Feb. 21, pp. 53-54 Cone, Michele. "Robert Yarber," Arts Magazine , May, p. 88 Swift, Harriet. "At home in America's urbanscapes," The Tribune , May 8, pp. C1 + C4. Bonetti, David. "Redefining the body out of control," San Francisco Examiner , May, 18, p. C2. Baker, Kenneth. "A World Where All the Lights Are Neon," San Francisco Chronicle , May 27, pp. 14 + 15. Nixon, Bruce. "Moments of Oblivion, Robert Yarber at Richmond Art Center," Artweek , June, 7. Meisler, Andy. "Random Room Service: The Paintings of Robert Yarber," California Magazine , Aug. 8, Vol. 15, pp. 60-65. Johnson, Ken. "Robert Yarber at Sonnabend," Art in America , September, pp. 192- 193.

1989 Van Proyen. "Falling into the Miasma," Art Week , Mar. 25, p. 3 Baker, Kenneth. "Yarber Coasting With Fantasies," San Francisco Chronicle , Thurs. Mar. 30. van Nieuwenhuyzen, Martijn. "Spotlight: Horn of Plenty," Flash Art , Mar./Apr. p. 102.

1988 Boettger, Suzann. "Some Enchanted Evenings: The Paintings of Robert Yarber," Arts , February, p. 68-71.

1987 Amis, Martin. "Insight at Flame Lake," Vanity Fair , June 1987, pp. 98-101, 126-127. Roels Jr., Reynaldo. "Metaphoras do tempo presenter," Caderno May 28, 1987, p. 2. Eliasoph, Phillip. "Fear and loathing in the NeoExpressionist world," The Advocate and Greenwich Time , Sun. May 24, 1987, p. D5. Cyphers, Peggy. "Objects of Desire," Cover , October 1987. Heartney, Eleanor. Reviews, ArtNews , November, 1987, p. 191 Yau, John. Review, Artforum , November 1987, p. 132

1986 Boettger, Suzaan. "Robert Yarber at Sonnabend," (Review), Art Forum , January. Haggerty, Gerard. "Robert Yarber at Sonnabend," (Review), Art News , January (Ill. Regard and Abandon, 1985). Adams, Brooks. "Robert Yarber at Sonnabend," (Review), Art in America , March (Ill. Casino, 1985). New York, Soho, A Guide. A Documentary. Egret Publications New York (Ill. "Falling Shopper, 1985")

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Richardson, John. "Something borrowed, something new," The Albuquerque Tribune , May 24, Saturday. Clarke, John, R. "Color, Space, and Conflict in Robert Yarber's Paintings," ARTS , September, pp.46-49 Cone, Michele. "Robert Yarber," Flash Art , Dec. 85/Jan. 86 (Ill. Floters, 1985, The Tender and the Damned, 1985, cover). ... "Falling Couple," April No. 2 Los Angeles Times , (Review), Wed., May 2. Block, Guy and Carlozzi, Annette. 50 Texas Artists, A Critical Selection of Painters and Sculptors Working in Texas , October.

1985 Russell, John. "Art: Whitney Presents Its Biennial Exhibition," The New York Times , March 22 (Ill. Big Fall, 1984). Fabrikant, Andrew. "Robert Yarber," Flash Art , March (Tll. Big Fall, 1984). Levine, Kim. "Vertigo," The Village Voice , November 19, p. 82, (Ill. Palace, 1985). Langhorne Reeve, Elisabeth. "Robert Yarber Show," Art Stars , vol. II, no. 5, May (Ill. Beachside Bar). McCombie, Mel. "Yarber's Artwork Achieves Spotlight," Art & Intertainment , Thursday, May 23 (Ill. Big Fall, Double Suicide and Triangle is on View).

1984 Burkhardt, Dorothy. "Crime and Punishment Show Paints Grim Picture of the Times," San Jose Mercury News , February 10, p. 3D Donley, Ray. "Austin to Venice," Third Coast , February. Ennis, Michael. "Venetian Finds," Texas Monthly , vol. 12, no. 2, February, pp. 128-133 (Ill. Night Pool, 1980). "Crime and Punishment at Triton Museum of Art, Santa Clara," Images and Issues , vol. 5, no. 1, July/August, pp. 24-25 (Ill. Teen Violence, 1977). Kutner, Janet. "A Stranger in His Own Land," The Dallas Times Herald , March 28, pp. Fl-3(Ill. Painting the Lobby). "No Paradise Found," The Dallas Morning News , August 14, pp. El-2. Levy, Mark. "Confronting the Human Condition," Artweek, vol. 15, no.28, August 11, p. 1 (Ill. Bana, 1983). Mitchell, Dee. "Going Head Over Heels Over Robert Yarber," The Dallas Observer , April 5. Relyea, Lane. "Pick of the Week," The L.A. Weekly , December 14-20, (Ill. Big Fall, 1984). Wilson, William. "The Galleries," Los Angeles Times, December 7 (Ill. Big Fall, 1984).

1983 Steinmetz, George. "The Human Condition," San Francisco , Vol. 26, No. 8, August, pp. 43-54 (Ill. Bana, 1983). "Robert Yarber at the San Francisco Art Insitute," Vanguard , November, pp. 34-35 (Ill. Poolside Bar, 1983). Jan, Alfred. "Attention: California Artists at the Oakland Museum," Images and Issues , Vol. 4 No. 2, September/October (Ill. Bana, 1983). Derrickson, Stephen. "Making Art on the Cultural Front Lines," The Austin

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Chronicle , November 11, p.6 (Ill. Falling Couple, 1983). "Season of the Figure: Three Modes," Artweek , Vol. 14, No. 30, September 17, p. 1 (Ill. Poolside Bar, 1983; Struggling Couple, 1982). Burstein, Joanne. "California Color," Artweek , Vol. 14, April 23, p. 24 (Ill. Bana, 1983). Boettger, Suzann. "The Impolite Figure," Artforum , October, p. 81 (Ill. Double Suicide, 1982). Albright, Thomas. "Art as Reflection of Good Times and Bad Times," San Francisco Chronicle , September 9.

1982 Ewing, Patrick. "A Group's Allurements," Artweek , August 14 Heartney, Eleanor. "West of the Hudson: Regional Art on Exhibit in New York," Arts , Vol. 58, No. 10, pp. 99-101. Trebay, Gay. "California Video," The Village Voice , February 17.

1981 Wilson, William. "Downtown," Los Angeles Times , February 20 Radner, Hilary. "An Interview with Bob Yarber," Discourse: Berkeley Journal for Theoretical Studiesin Media and Culture - April (Special Supplement-Ill. Suit-Split,1980) Muchnic, Suzanne. "Grins and Grimaces at Two Galleries," Los Angeles Times , July 14. Kurcfeld, Michael. "Art," New West , March. Hamilton, Scott. "Paraguay An Introduction," Discourse: Berkeley Journal for Theoretical Studies in Media and Culture , April (Special Supplement). (Ill. Night-Pool, 1980; Chow-Mein Mao, 1973-75) Fox, Louis, W. "Formalizing the City," Artweek , October 24 Drojowska, Hunter. "Pick of the Week," L.A. Weekly , March 13-19 (Ill. Sunset Pool) Cebulski, Frank. "Ugly Romances," ArtWeek , Vol. 12, No.44, December 26, p. 16 (Ill. Ideal Service, 1981) Atkings, Robert. "Trends, Traditions, and Dirt: The Current State of Art in Northern California," Journal , Winter

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COLLECTIONS:

The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York The Boston Fine Arts Museum The Oakland Art Museum The Birmingham Art Museum, Birmingham, Alabama The Yokohama Museum of Art Yokohama, Japan The Ludwig Museum, Cologne, Germany The Acher M. Huntington Museum of Art, The Univ. of Texas at Austin The Paine-Webber Collection, NY The Equitable Life Inc., NY Bank of America, San Francisco, CA Southwestern Bell, Dallas, TX Frito-Lay, Dallas, TX Fredric R. Wiseman Foundation, Los Angeles, CA The Broad Family Foundation, Los Angeles, CA

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DISSERTATIONS

1994 Burchard, C. Robert Yarber und die Krise des American Dream: Die Bilder 1980- 1988 , Munchen.

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