Art and Science, Friday, June 20, 2003 Artists have always used the latest technologies to create their work: think of Albrecht Dürer and the printing press in the 16th century, which the Northern Renaissance master used to create astonishing works of art. Today, artists are still as new-media literate as Dürer was, not only because [...]

Travel: Culture Stops, Thursday, May 8, 2003 By Michael Kilian Tribune staff reporter In conjunction with Venice Biennale international art exhibition, that fabled Italian city’s Museo di Santa’Appolonia will open this Wednesday a show devoted to the work of American digital artist R.W. Firestone, one of the world’s leading and most original practitioners in that [...]

Robert Firestone’s Art is Now Ready-to-wear, Saturday, April 23, 2005 “Often art and fashion make strange bedfellows, but Sue Firestone and Mimi Wolfe have translated the vibrant visions of digital artist Robert Firestone into Tamsen, a line of printed jersey separates and chiffon gowns that is creating a buzz among the social set.” Click the [...]

Book Cover: International Contemporary Masters, World Wide Art Books, Vol III, 2010 Art book reflecting current work of contemporary artists worldwide. Curated by Despina Tunberg.

Carnival, front cover of International Contemporary Masters 2008, January, 2008 Published by OMMA Center of Contemporary Art and curated by Despina Tunberg, this annual collection of contemporary art includes six works by R.W. Firestone.

Robert W. Firestone: Feelings, by Dominick Lombardi, May/June, 2007 “Firestone is at his best when he pushes his abstractions to a simpler, more primal place.  For instance, in his Community, the artist creates a rhythmic feel that yields fiery colors and haunting black forms.  The result is a hypnotic, even dramatic, composition that blends jazzy organics [...]

ARTnews: “Feelings” Exhibition at Wickiser, March 2007 issue “In Death Scene 4 (2006), a group of silhouettes stand before a crackling neon background that is likely formed by the branches of a tree.  The acid colors pulse with an unnatural energy, as though they might be about to engulf the dark forms…. It is intense and visceral, [...]

Digital Transformations, Friday, March 3, 2006 “[Firestone's] paintings are bold, striking, and vividly colored, with a wide range of styles and subjects demonstrating a mastery of the immense possibilities that the digital medium offers.” Click the image above to see the full article.

American Artist Exhibited at Omma, Wednesday, March 16, 2005 “Transformations” at Omma Center of Contemporary Art in Chania, Crete, Greece. Click image to see full page story and images.

Ten American Artists, Monday, October 6, 2003 The selected works in this show suggest numerous contradictions and references when hung in the land of Mozart and Freud, of high culture and revelatory psychoanalysis.  These artists represent the best contemporary efforts to derive organic emotion from either a machine (camera, computer, and printer) used for production, [...]

Venice Magazine Adventure of Images 2003 Friday, June 20, 2003 Click image to read the article.

A Traveler in Images, Friday, June 20, 2003 I once wrote that the work of the American artist Robert Firestone is a sort of “adventure of images”. Though he avails himself of the great formal lessons of twentieth-century art, the path of his research is entirely personal and characteristic. The process through which he arrives [...]

Cover: American Planning Association Journal Sunday, June 1, 2003 R.W. Firestone’s Cityscape Pink is a bold image capturing the essence of a city. In this Longer View essay, Bruce McClendon argues that the profession of planning needs a similarly bold vision and compelling brand identity in order to claim its proper place among many competitors [...]

The color of imagination, Saturday, May 3, 2003 The Foundation Rodriguez Acosta welcomes the first exhibition in Spain of the American artist Robert W. Firestone. Written by: Poli Servián An outbreak of color invades the Carmen White Gallery of the Foundation Rodriguez Acosta. The person in charge: Robert W. Firestone, an American, and a psychotherapist [...]

On the cover: Schizophrenia Monday, April 15, 2002 by Sandra Mumford, Art Consultant Robert W. Firestone, PhD, born in Brooklyn in 1930, credits his experiences as a psychologist as well as his global travel for the perceptions, ideas, and emotions that he expresses in his art. His work reflects his psychoanalytic insights, his awareness of the human condition, [...]

In the Hands of Time, Thursday, July 19, 2001 Explorations, edited by Marie Maber. Santa Barbara County, California, artist R.W. Firestone began painting 50 years ago but couldn’t get the colors he really wanted, so he did other things for awhile.  As a clinical psychologist he’s practiced for decades and written eight books, including Fear of [...]

Opening Reception, OMMA Gallery for Contemporary Arts, Saturday, March 4, 2006 Thomas and Despina Tunburg opened a new gallery in Santa Barbara, CA in addition to their one in Chania, on the island of Crete, in Greece.  The art of R.W. Firestone was their inaugural exhibition and drew a large crowd of Santa Barbara first-nighters.

Bulgari Charity Event, Bulgari Store, Beverly Hills, Thursday, June 2, 2005 Art by R.W. Firestone, gowns by Tamsen using fabrics derived from Firestone art, and jewelry by Bulgari.  All proceeds to charity.

Opening Reception, Museo d’Arte Sant’Apollonia, Venice, Italy, June, 2003 A short walk from St. Mark’s Square in Venice, Italy, looking down the canal at the Bridge of Sighs, lies the beautiful 400 year-old Museo d’Arte Sant’Apollonia.  It was at this ancient museum that R.W. Firestone’s exhibition “Adventure in Images” appeared simultaneous to the five months [...]

Slideshow of images displayed April through October, 2003 at the Museo d’Arte Sant’Apollonia, Venice, Italy. These are the pictures from the traveling exhibition that first showed in Granada, Spain and then went on to Venice, Italy.  Catalogs are available upon request in Spanish and English and also in Italian and English.

Opening Reception, Museo Fundacion Rodriguez Acosta, Granada, Spain, April, 2003 Amid the spacious gardens of this beautiful museum high up and adjacent to the Alhambra and overlooking the city of Granada, lies a Spanish castle converted to museum space.  It was here that R.W. Firestone’s show “Adventure of Images 2003” took place during the months [...]