Robert Welkie
Finding the Beauty in the Transition to the Anthropocene.
In the summer of 2017 Robert Welkie was the Keynote Artist at the Annual meeting of the American Society for Aesthetics in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Showing in Sydney, Australia in a benefit show at Martine Gallery
Bird at the Timpken Museum, San Diego 2018
Dee Horne”s new book Mary Oliver’s Grass Roots Poetry includes my “Rainstorm Over Salt lake Valley, Utah” on the cover. It feels very good to be a part of this work.
PAMLA 2019
Presented at: Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association
117th Annual Conference - San Diego, California
Thursday, November 14 - Sunday, November 17, 2019
Dee Horne, Reuben Ellis and Robert Welkie presented in a Creative Conversation entitled:
"Reflexive Altered Spaces in the Anthropocene."
https://www.pamla.org/2019
Entry to Gerald Peters Contemporary.
Images being accepted by the registration department at Gerald Peters Contemporary.
Gallery view at Gerald Peters Contemporary.
Robert Welkie at opening at Gerald Peters Contemporary.
A show of Fire prints from Anthroposcenic is opening June 8th 2018, and will be up through the summer at Peters Projects 1011 Paseo De Peralta, Santa Fe, NM 87501.
http://www.petersprojects.c
Robert Welkie: Anthroposcenic: Fire
Gerald Peters Contemporary
Fri, Jun 8, 2018
5:00pm
FULL DESCRIPTION
Here's a way-too-timely show for New Mexicans. While an image of a forest fire might be initially disturbing, Welkie’s photographs indeed find an atmospheric beauty in the destruction through his softly focused lens and acute eye for color. Born in Logan, Utah, Welkie has created a body of work that is affecting and meaningful as it is pertinent to our time. Through Aug. 25.
The title of the collection draws from the term “Anthropocene,” our current geological age which transitioned from the Haloscene epoch in 2016, at the suggestion of the International Geological Congress. The Anthropocene period is viewed as the period during which human activity has been the dominant influence on climate and the environment. While human innovation is an often beneficial and exciting development, there are very real consequences we face from a rapidly changing world. No matter the influence, there is an ever-present abundance of wildfires brutalizing the United States, and they seem to get closer and closer to our neighborhoods and homes.
221 b crux
CruX showed at 221B gallery, in Trinidad, Colorado August and september of 2022. Curator,mark johnstone. The above video was scored by Christophe Deluy.
In his last post for This Week in Photography, Jonathan Blaustein recalled sitting down with me at Medium, in San Diego sometime before, We had a good conversation and he imparted advice about lens selection that I had never heard before.
This Week in Photography
December 9, 2022; By Jonathan Blaustein
Robert had a bunch of small projects, and when I just went to his website, I remembered I liked his color diptychs. But this group below is also very cool, as the textures and tonality are strong. This micro edit is almost creepy, if you ask me. (Then again, I edited it.)
Prints have appeared on the sets of the following television shows.
Transparent
I Love Dick
Dirty John