Robert Moler

Like a mirror held to one's face, Robert Moler’s male figurative work reflects the struggle between human aspiration and the transitory nature of human existence. His themes include the sensuality of the flesh, the pain of broken relationships, the injustices of homophobia, hypocrisy within the Christian tradition, and the shallow nature of the male psyche. He usually incorporates some sort of mask or substitutes an object to cover the face of the subject to lift him onto a symbolically higher level of self-awareness and consciousness. By masking the figure, the internal psyche rather than the individual physical portrait is better emphasized.