The Kravets/Wehby Gallery is pleased to announce RECKONING, a solo exhibition exhibition of new paintings by Charlie Roberts opening on Thursday, December 11 and running through Januray 17, 2009.

In the very recent past, the energetic young artist Charlie Roberts has run the gamut from small drawings and paintings to massive sculpture and installation. Forays into music and film production provide a constant stream of inspiration in Charlie’s endless and dynamic drive to create. But, every now and then, an artist returns to where it all started, in a RECKONING of sorts. After immensely ambitious site-specific installations in Europe and the US, Roberts turns to potent, yet petite, paintings on paper. In each intimate painting, whole worlds are contained. In one work Lilliputian men scramble around in a frenzy of activity. In another, art historic works are packed into what appears to be a dream studio. Pop culture continues to inspire, but the paintings are more contained in their epic historic references. Each culturally packed vignette reminds the viewer of the cyclical nature of events.

Charlie Roberts was born in Kansas and currently lives and works in Oslo, Norway. He was recently included in “Sonsbeek 2008: Grandeur,” curated by Anna Tilroe in Arnhem, The Netherlands, as well as in “The Incomplete” at the Chelsea Art Museum in New York. He recently had a solo show “Mambo Jambo: Cabinet of the Cosmos,” at Rice University Art Gallery curated by Kimberly Davenport in Dallas, TX. Charlie has had recent gallery exhibitions in Stocklholm at Magnus Karlsson, Vous Etes Ici in Amsterdam and at Richard Heller in Los Angeles.