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“Nova”, 2026, acrylic on canvas, 30” x 40”. Available at American Art Gallery, Carmel, CA

1stDibs.com online exhibition notes: "Nova" is a strikingly elegant work that announces itself with the cool, assured confidence of an artist working at the height of his skill. Robert Glick orchestrates a sophisticated composition of geometric forms and fluid, sweeping curves across the canvas - hard-edged rectangles and precisely rendered grids coexist with long, sinuous bands of color that move through the composition like ribbons of light through atmosphere. A large, luminous circle dominates the upper left, its pristine white surface interrupted by a warm terracotta crescent that gives it the quality of a sun, moon, or something altogether more abstract. Above it all, softly rendered clouds press in from the upper register, grounding the geometric precision of the composition in something organic and sky-like, a device that adds unexpected depth and poetry to what might otherwise be purely formal work. The palette is exceptionally refined - a range of cool blues, soft lavender, aqua, and pale grey provides the dominant atmosphere, warmed throughout by carefully placed accents of terracotta, golden yellow, sage green, and deep teal. Every color relationship feels considered and resolved, the composition balanced with the eye of someone who understands both the architecture of a painting and its emotional register. The surface has clean edges, smooth transitions, and a crispness of execution that gives the work a graphic authority entirely its own. "Nova" is a beautiful and sophisticated painting, and an exceptional introduction to Glick's geometric vision for any collector.

“Bixby Revisited”, 2026, acrylic on canvas, 40” x 30”. Available at American Art Gallery, Carmel, CA

1stDibs.com online exhibition notes: “Bixby Revisited is a bold and inventive take on one of California’s most iconic views. Glick painted the famous Bixby Creek Bridge along the Big Sur coast with a painter’s eye and a graphic designer’s sensibility - the result is something that feels at once completely recognizable and entirely fresh. The composition is dramatic and confident, pulling the viewer down into the rocky canyon below the bridge while the vast Pacific stretches out behind it in rich, saturated blues. The cliffs are rendered in Glick’s signature fragmented style, their faces broken into angular facets of ochre, lavender, and warm brown that give the geological forms an almost cubist energy. It is representational and abstract at the same time, which is exactly where Glick lives most comfortably as a painter. What makes this work particularly distinctive is the overlay of floating geometric squares scattered across the sky and cliff face - a device that both flattens and activates the picture plane simultaneously, pushing the painting firmly into contemporary territory without ever losing its sense of place. This is Big Sur as filtered through decades of design thinking and painterly investigation, and the tension between those two sensibilities is what gives the work its charge. It would be a striking and sophisticated addition to any collection, and a natural fit for anyone who loves the California coast and wants something that sees it with genuinely fresh eyes.”