Until Tomorrow Comes
Artist Statement
Until Tomorrow Comes
Until Tomorrow Comes, Robert Minervini’s second solo exhibition with Marine Contemporary in Venice, California in 2013. This site-specific exhibition of nine interrelated large-scale paintings, is intended to be viewed and considered as a single, continuous panoramic landscape. While the works function independently, they are reliant on each other to unravel a long-form narrative space that wraps around the gallery, inviting the viewer to experience the passage of space and time.
This series was greatly inspired by travels and experience of the iconic, sweeping landscapes of the Southwest and Northwest, en-route to an artist residency program at the Bemis Center for the Arts in Omaha, Nebraska. Concurrently, much of the iconography in the works continues to be taken from immediate surroundings in California and the Bay Area in particular. An ongoing interest in the history of landscape painting is further explored in this body of work, with the narrative behind the work being one of natural space transforming into a somewhat dystopian view of nature – an eerie non-place populated by highways, cities, and corporate architecture through the lens of the hyper-real.