Oh My! is a common reaction when it comes to San Antonio artist Robert Tatum's work. That, and giggles mixed with raised eyebrows, especially when one is faced with a painting of a vixenish and buxom deer wearing a Madonna inspired bustier and pearl necklace...
Tatum's graphic design background and Venice Beach laid-back California attitude definitely come across in his artwork. The instant you meet him, you feel like you could pop open a cold one and talk about anything and everything under the sun, no pretenses.
The work in his current exhibit, "Insert Clever Title Here," has a similar disarming and easygoing nature. Tatum, like his art "put it all out there," inviting others to do the same and discuss things that aren't necessarily status quo, laughing it off. Tatum is the first to tell you about his go go dancer mother and joke about "the white trash elements" of his family. It's refreshing. After all, everyone's got a stripper or weird uncle in the family. Tatum's work reminds me to relax, call a spade a spade and cut up about it with friends and family. As art critics say, great art evokes a feeling/message/universal truth and right now Tatum's work is telling me to go grab a Corona with my friends... here's to you Ruskin, Alloway and Roberta Smith. Cheers!
View more of Robert Tatum's work at: http://www.anartegallery09.com/tatum.html
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