Robert

Voigts

Robert Voigts is an artist and designer who creates digital, mixed-media collages. Voigts has created a unique visual language that is unmistakably his own, utilizing stunning groupings of color that combine the geometric with the organic in abstract ways. The asymmetrical compositions keep your eye racing around the image, always more dots to connect and subtleties to uncover.

Collage artist using found materials, acrylic and oil stick. Mostly self-taught, he works in acrylic, mixed media, collage, as well as digital media. His experiments in collage and assemblage and his personal study of art history have been the biggest influence in his work, as well as the landscapes of Illinois and Missouri, and the surrealist poets, especially Robert Desnos. He is particularly fond of the artists Joseph Cornell, Robert Rauschenburg, Kurt Schwitters, Wayne Thiebaud, and Richard Diebenkorn. When beginning a piece, he doesn’t have a fixed idea in mind, but instead he follows intuitive impressions. He uses old recycled digital and handmade sketches, photography (both his own photos and found photography), found art, paper, packaging, and trash. He experiments with color, shape, pattern, line, texture and marks. He plays with ideas of chance, opposites, mundaneness, memory, wonder, contradiction, juxtaposition, poems,
letters, numbers, punctuation, and more. After following the impressions and lots of experimentation, he arrives at a stopping point, contemplates what emerged, considers if it is done, and if it is, names it.

Robert Voigts

Robert Voigts was born in 1953 in Great Lakes, Illinois. He is currently based in North Aurora, Illinois.