Acrylic on canvas, 2016-2017, signed at lower right, inscribed to the verso of the stretcher, framed.

Frame dimensions 36 3/4 x 36 3/4 in.

Robert Postma was born in Akron, Ohio. He studied Art & Art History at the Akron Art Institute, the Cleveland Institute of Art, the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Western Reserve University (B.S., 1962) and the University of Pennsylvania (M.F.A., 1963).

Postma began exhibiting paintings in 1963, with shows in Philadelphia, New York, Boston, Indianapolis, Milwaukee, Toronto, and throughout North Carolina. He was a faculty member and guest artist in several art departments, including Colgate University, Philadelphia College of Art, and Ontario College of Art.

In 1969, he was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship and painted in Antibes, France and the Catskills of New York.

Postma was selected as a master artist for the North Carolina Arts Council's Artist's Training Program in 1980. In 1985, he began working with children with intellectual and developmental disabilities. After retiring from Guilford County Schools in 1999, he founded the Exceptional Friends Art Studio where he works with adults with disabilities.

His paintings are in numerous collections including the Asheville Art Museum, the Cameron Museum of Art in Wilmington, and the Morris Museum of Art in Augusta, Georgia.

“As I see it, the subject of my work is an ongoing, friendly dialogue with 20th century painting. The various avenues of abstraction have held my attention for over 60 years and I’m encouraged to seek new and surprising color-structures and arrangements that spring from those earlier discoveries.” -Robert Postma

Good estate condition.