Robin Tucker

Works
  • Robin Tucker, And the Clowns Played On, 2025
    And the Clowns Played On, 2025
  • Robin Tucker, Tide Pool
    Tide Pool
  • Robin Tucker, Enticement, 2024
    Enticement, 2024
  • Robin Tucker, The Path Most Taken, 2024
    The Path Most Taken, 2024
  • Robin Tucker, Hypnotized, 2024
    Hypnotized, 2024
  • Robin Tucker, River Walk, 2023
    River Walk, 2023
  • Robin Tucker, Protecting My Inner Monkey, 2024
    Protecting My Inner Monkey, 2024
  • Robin Tucker, Red and White, 2024
    Red and White, 2024
  • Robin Tucker, Red and White (print), 2024
    Red and White (print), 2024
  • Robin Tucker, Condensed Living, 2024
    Condensed Living, 2024
  • Robin Tucker, The Spaces Between the Happiness and the Hardness, 2017
    The Spaces Between the Happiness and the Hardness, 2017
  • Robin Tucker, Arbitration, 2024
    Arbitration, 2024
  • Robin Tucker, The Swans Have Always Known
    The Swans Have Always Known
  • Robin Tucker, Defiance, 2024
    Defiance, 2024
  • Robin Tucker, History, 2023
    History, 2023
  • Robin Tucker, Gathered Again 2, 2023
    Gathered Again 2, 2023
  • Robin Tucker, Gathered Again, 2023
    Gathered Again, 2023
  • Robin Tucker, Hi-yo Silver! (We are all the Lone Ranger), 2023
    Hi-yo Silver! (We are all the Lone Ranger), 2023
  • Robin Tucker, Promises Kept (print), 2021
    Promises Kept (print), 2021
  • Robin Tucker, All the Days and All the Nights (Too Long in the Wilderness), 2019
    All the Days and All the Nights (Too Long in the Wilderness), 2019
  • Robin Tucker, Back from the Wasteland, 2019
    Back from the Wasteland, 2019
  • Robin Tucker, Badlands Flashback (Too Long In The Wilderness), 2019
    Badlands Flashback (Too Long In The Wilderness), 2019
  • Robin Tucker, Chasing Miro, 2019
    Chasing Miro, 2019
  • Robin Tucker, Message Board (Too Long In The Wilderness), 2019
    Message Board (Too Long In The Wilderness), 2019
  • Robin Tucker, Those Days Were Diamonds (Too Long In The Wilderness), 2019
    Those Days Were Diamonds (Too Long In The Wilderness), 2019
  • Robin Tucker, Toward The Borderlands (Too Long In The Wilderness), 2019
    Toward The Borderlands (Too Long In The Wilderness), 2019
  • Robin Tucker, A Temporary Fix, 2018
    A Temporary Fix, 2018
  • Robin Tucker, Bouquet, 2018
    Bouquet, 2018
  • Robin Tucker, Tadpoles
    Tadpoles
  • Robin Tucker, Brain Scan (print), 2022
    Brain Scan (print), 2022
  • Robin Tucker, More Luck Than Most (print), 2022
    More Luck Than Most (print), 2022
Overview

Robin Tucker is an artist residing in Little Rock, Arkansas.  In 2014, he was chosen as one of the Delta Award Winners at the Delta Exhibition.  He has also won the Arkansas League of Artists annual show for 3 consecutive years.  His incredibly detailed photo-realistic paintings often provide deep meanings of life, death as well as the natural and man made worlds.  

 

ARTIST STATEMENT

It would be natural to peg my work into the genre of photorealism, or hyperrealism, or any other number of conventions. Close examination shows these works do not adhere strictly to the forms of these categories; there are gaps in rigid interpretation. I do not want to re-create photographs for the sake of technique or exactitude, rather I want to form a space of personal attachment and let the subjective flow into the spaces around the work. My works can be interpretive, often symbolic, and always intrinsically close to the meaning of experience. I can hold and handle the objects I transfer onto the canvas and I try to transmit the weight of that real experience to a place where the viewer is engaged with their own sense of attachment.

I would much rather have my paintings speak for me, rather than me speak for them. They seem to have a purpose that surpasses my ability to express otherwise. These works function in service to a quality that is intangible and transient, and not knowable in a certain sense. That quality is made of emotion, connection and affection. The objects and compositions I create I have chosen for specific reasons. I paint them with respect for their history and the connection I hold with them to almost everything in the work. All of the pebbles, marbles, skulls and objects were either given to me by others or they are emblematic of experience shared with individuals that hold significance in my life.