Robert Woodward
aka Peanutbutter®
Artist's Statement
My visual life before fabricating art was a scientific one. It focused mostly on the interiors of animals, the microscopic examination of the interiors of cells, and the atomic-level, electron-micrographic cross-sections of diverse materials and cell components, while pondering Natural Selection, Chaos, and chance phenomena.
Since then, my artistic expression, regardless of the medium - jewelry, paintings, sculpture, installations, face painting - has been a manifestation of this formative experience. Exteriors, interiors, cross-sections - visually, they all prevail. Technically too, I set myself up to work like Nature, randomly selecting processes, as well as materials and parts that I’ve found or fabricated, to most simulate the process of Natural Selection. By constantly changing the methods (new tools, self-teaching or classes) and elements, the work evolves like Nature, with the stronger work surviving the weaker. Working quickly and on a small scale, like a virus, allows my artistic evolution to proceed at a more accelerated pace than in larger media.
On a lighter note, years of clowning - literally - has introduced a certain levity, tongue-in-cheek, droll aspect to some of the work. A performer's mission is to engage the spectator, lure the passer-by. A clown or magician does that and then adds a trick, a pun, or visual double entendre. I want the viewer to look closely, do a double-take, and then be rewarded for doing so.
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University Of Pennsylvania 1971 BA in Microbiology University of Paris - 1st year Masters - Histoire de l'art Middlebury College, Robert Frost Writing School.
Woodward has been exhibiting sculpture, paintings, jewelry and furniture since 1974.
Art-in-Transit Commission, Girard Street Subway Station. Penn Gazette Review
U of Pennsylvania, Smilow Commision
• Photo Exhibit - Aleppo, Syria - Artist-in-Residence as a Cultural Ambassador to Syria for the U.S. Embassy. • Cultural Ambassador to Myanmar 2018.
Robert Woodward is also known as Peanutbutter. He and his eponymous troupe of artists have decorated faces all over the world. He has performed face and body painting in Bali, Tokyo, Brazil, India, Puerto Rico, Italy and France, as well as national venues like the Corcoran Museum in Washington, DC, Studio 54, and Universal Studios in Los Angeles. He has painted full bodies for Cher, Calvin Klein, and Annie Liebowitz. Peanutbutter was also a featured guest on Martha Stewart's television program in 2000 (before prison.;))
Martha Stewart TV Segment