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Robert Hightower

Icons of the Toybox, July 27 - Sept 7, 2024

"Icons of the Toybox," an exciting new exhibition featuring the captivating paintings of Robert Hightower. This collection merges childhood nostalgia with contemporary critique, blending impressions from TV shows, cartoons, films, and toys into striking works of art. Hightower's pieces evoke a sense of superposition, layering these elements into compositions that invite intense meditation and admiration.

Traditionally, icon paintings center on a singular object, or a group arranged in a classical triangular composition, often with a focus on religious figures. However, Hightower reinterprets this tradition for the modern age, reflecting our contemporary society's obsession with material possessions and the American Dream. Toys, in his work, become symbols that whitewash the past and embody the dreams we are sold from an early age. Among his earliest memories are objects like a G.I. Joe, a Big Wheel, and plastic Cowboys and Indians, which now serve as powerful icons in his paintings.

**Funeral Pyle**
*oak garden stakes, twigs, plywood, felt, oil & enamel, 24”x16”x11”*
$3800

**AT&T Outpost (American Telephone & Telegraph)**
lincoln logs, Lead, Gold, Wire,
16”x6”x7”
$2400

**Early American**
virgin wool, linen thread, cherry wood,
12”x16”x13”
$3500

**Gut Shot**
*oil and enamel on panel, 18”x18”*
**SOLD**

**War Path**
*oil and enamel on panel, 18”x18”*
**SOLD**

**Marshall**
*oil and enamel on panel, 18”x18”*
$1500

**Brave**
*oil and enamel on panel, 18”x18”*
$1500

**Noble Savage**
*oil and enamel on panel, 36”x36”*
$4500

**Broken Arrow**
*oil and enamel on panel, 36”x36”*
$4500

**Cheyenne Raid**
*oil and enamel on panel, 36”x48”*
$6000

**Minnie Walker**
*oil and enamel on panel, 36”x24”*
$3000

**Minnie HaHa**
*oil and enamel on panel, 36”x24”*
$3000

**Martyr**
*oil and enamel on panel, 10”x8”*
$800

**Mystic**
*oil and enamel on panel, 10”x8”*
$800

**Drunk**
*oil and enamel on panel, 10”x8”*
$800

**Knight**
*oil and enamel on panel, 10”x8”*
$800

Teacher, Clown, Poet & Warrior
*oil and enamel on panel, 10”x8”*
$800 each

**Wild Fires**
*Plywood, pine, oil paint , 83”x42”x11”*
$3500

Under the Big Blue Sky, April 29 - May 27, 2023

**Tidal Wave**
*plywood, Velcro, linen thread, and oil paint, 60”x60”x12”*
$4800

**Omega III**
*oil paint and ink encaustic on canvas, 42”x42”*
$5500

**Forestry (Cell) Tower**
*plywood, old-growth cedar, brass, balsa wood, and oil paint, 24”x12”x12”*
$1800

**Omega II**
*oil paint and ink encaustic on canvas, 42”x42”*
$5500

**Corporate Tower**
*old-growth cedar, plywood, cotton felt, and oil paint, 36”x14”x14”*
$1750

**Map of Posterity**
*plywood, canvas, and oil paint, 18”x36x5”*
$3000

**Slums**
*old-growth cedar, wool felt, mild steel, and oil paint, 6”x36”x36”*
$2800

**Corporate Food Farms**
*lead, plywood, wool felt, and oil paint, 4”x36”x12”*
$4000 total ($500 per parcel)

**Oil Rig**
*plywood, old-growth cedar, and oil paint, 12”x12”x12”*
$1750

**Gated Community**
old-growth cedar, plywood, cotton + wool felt, recycled leather, linen thread, and oil paint, 36”x60”x36”
$9800 total ($2800 for large house, $1750 each for each of four small houses)
$980/month with Art Money

**Candy Car**
*oil paint and ink encaustic on canvas, 24”x24”*
$3200

**Sahdguru**
*oil paint and ink encaustic on canvas, 24”x24”*
$3200

**Selfie Walking**
*oil paint and ink encaustic on canvas, 24”x24”*
$3200

**Roxy, I Love You**
*oil paint and ink encaustic on canvas, 20”x20”*
$2400

**Sex Traffic**
*oil paint and ink encaustic on canvas, 24”x24”*
$3200

**Beach Time**
*oil paint and ink encaustic on canvas, 24”x24”*
$3200

**Sky Club**
*oil paint and ink encaustic on canvas, 24”x24”*
$3200

**McFood**
*oil paint and ink encaustic on canvas, 24”x24”*
$3200
$320/month with Art Money

**The Pump**
*oil paint and ink encaustic on canvas, 24”x24”*
$3200

**LOL**
*oil paint and ink encaustic on canvas, 24”x24”*
$3200

**Blue Collar Bev**
*oil paint and ink encaustic on canvas, 20”x20”*
$2400