ARTWORK: An Online Robert Singleton Retrospective

Visit a striking, immersive online gallery showcasing the artist's career

Mar 08, 2023

Here is a view of one of the online galleries in a digital retrospective of the artistic career of Robert Singleton. Visit this and other galleries at: resingleton.net

MARCH 8, 2023 | Digital technology and omnipresent, online life routinely get the rap for yanking us away from essential things in favor of overstimulation and the latest fluffy tweet, post or viral video. Yet the best online presentations engage you in deep and significant ways that might be impossible in the physical world. At age 85, Robert Singleton has had a long and varied artistic career, with many twists, turns and permutations. To fit all that work into a single real-world gallery would by nigh to impossible. Yet, now, you may experience a remarkable, immersive retrospective of Robert’s entire career in the online galleries at resingleton.net, set to a gorgeous ambient music score by Dan Morro. Below is a listing of the different galleries, which also serves as a shorthand glance at some of the most significant eras in the artist’s life. We will be surveying that notable career in the documentarty “HOUSE IN THE CLOUDS: The Artistic Life of Robert Singleton,” whose world premiere is Sunday, Sept. 17, 2023, at the Clay Center in Charleston, W.Va. SUBSCRIBE TO THIS SITE for updates on the film.

NOTE ABOUT THESE ONLINE GALLERY SPACES

The Robert Singleton retrospective galleries (see below) are made possible online via tools and services offered by a company based in Berlin, Germany, called Kunstmatrix. The company describes its tools as enabling artists to create 3D showcases of their art “to impress art lovers and collectors [and] digitally present and manage your art, including an augmented reality app to show a preview of your work in any space you like.”