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Robert Sites paintings are barely contained by the canvases that hold them. When the artist combines stylized motifs with realistic imagery, the results are both sensual and dynamic. Animals like deer or small dogs gambol among decorative flourishes. A haggard clown stares with vacant eyes. He seems lost among the ornamental decoration and patterns that act as architectural planes in his constrained world. With their dazzling colors, elegant lines and pebbled surfaces, Sites' paintings are a visual feast.

Robert Sites is a Norfolk-based painter and a full professor in the Fine Arts Department of Norfolk State University. Site began his education at the University of Kansas where he graduated in 1972 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree. He received a Masters of Fine Art in Painting from the Cranbrook Academy of Art in 1975. Sites has exhibited his work extensively throughout the region and the United States. He has been a visiting artist at the American Academy in Rome twice. Most recently, he was selected to be part of the June/July 2010 issue of New American Paintings magazine.