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Robert Masla’s collages juxtapose contemporary media such as the digital camera and Photoshop software program with painterly techniques cultivated over his 30 year career. Masla creates work that is both abstract and hyper-realistic by printing and painting on the canvas; the viewer is continually engaged by alternating passages of painted texture and images of everyday objects.
The integration of old and new reflects Masla’s philosophy that each artist should use whatever tools are available for creative expression. A student of Alton S. Tobey, Masla learned to paint in a realistic manner and to use his own photographs as resource material at an early age. Mixing It Up a Little More: Digital Collage Paintings is the culmination of many years of work and integrates his early lessons with contemporary thought and expression. His quest for personal truth and his ever-evolving spiritual life continue to inform his work.
Mixing It Up a Little More: Digital Collage Paintings is an extension of a current exhibition of Masla's paintings now on view (till October 18) at D'Amour Museum Art, located on the Museum Quadrangle at 21 Edwards Street in downtown Springfield.
 Small Creatures 22.5" x 32" |
 Passages 40" x 60" |
 Red Earth 22.5" x 32" |
 Offering to the Goddess 40" x 30" |
 T4Too 20" x 30" |
 Fall, 4 Seasons Series 40" x 30" |
 One Light 16" x 20" |
 The Principal of Understanding 16" x 20" |
 Tea Too 1 20" x 30" |
 Pebbles and Shells 1 8" x 10" |
 Pebbles and Shells 2 8" x 10" |
 Pebbles and Shells 3 8" x 10" |
 Pebbles and Shells 4 8" x 10" |