Dario Robleto

Shadows Evade the Sun I, c. 2012

Digital print

21.125 x 19.25 in (53.66 x 48.9 cm)

Edition. BAT: From the edition of: 1 BAT, 2 PPs, 5 APs, 1 set APs, 25 numbered editions)

$5,000

"Shadows Evade the Sun I” and “Untitled (Shadows Evade the Sun II)” are a suite of 9 archival digital and lithographic prints on Hahnemuhle Pearl paper. “Shadows Evade the Sun I” is a collection of stage lights taken from fan-shot concert photographs (Sun Ra, Whitney Houston, Serge Gainsbourg, Nina Simone, Jimi Hendrix, Mahalia Jackson, Memphis Slim, Muddy Waters, Frank Sinatra). "Shadows Evade the Sun II" is a collection of stage lights taken from fan-shot concert photographs (Johnny Cash, Dizzy Gillespie, Sam Cooke, Lena Horne, Charlie Parker, Janis Joplin, Ella Fitzgerald, The Doors, Elvis Presley).

About the artist

Dario Robleto

Dario Robleto was born in San Antonio, Texas in 1972 and received his BFA from the University of Texas at San Antonio in 1997. He lives and works in Houston, TX.

The artist has had numerous solo exhibitions since 1997, most recently at the Spencer Museum of Art, Lawrence, KS (2021); the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University (2019); the McNay Museum, San Antonio, TX (2018); Menil Collection, Houston, TX (2014); the Baltimore Museum of Art (2014); the New Orleans Museum of Art (2012); and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver (2011). His work has been profiled in numerous publications and media including Radiolab, Krista Tippet's On Being, and the New York Times. In 2008 a 10-year survey exhibition, Alloy of Love, was organized by the Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, New York. Accompanied by a major monograph, Alloy of Love traveled to the Frye Art Museum in Seattle, Washington.