RODNEY ALAN GREENBLAT (1960 -    )

Always innocent, optimistic and intelligent, Rodney Alan Greenblat has developed into a major artistic force in the art world of the 1980's. Born in a California suburb in 1960, Greenblat made the move to New York via Washington, D.C. in 1978. He began exhibiting his work in small galleries in New York's East Village, a breeding ground for the most avant-garde artistic creations of the day. Since then he has become the subject of solo exhibitions, including a museum retrospective which traveled the United States throughout 1987 and 1988. He has also been featured in over seventy-five group shows internationally.

Combining suburbia with the excitement of pop culture, Greenblat creates characters that are at once familiar, yet startlingly original. Greenblat, who paints primarily in acrylics, is a virtuoso in the print medium and is fluent in pastel, pencil and charcoal. The artist has also worked extensively with sculpture on both an intricate and monumental scale. Rodney Alan Greenblat gives us a world of harmony, a place where imagination and reality can peacefully coexist.

Rodney Alan Greenblat lives and works in New York City and is one of today's most dynamic young artists. He belongs to a group of artists, such as Keith Haring and Kenny Scharf, whose work is influenced by Pop Art, cartoons, and graffiti and is identified with the East Village revival of the 1980s.

Greenblat's works are alive with color and vitality and insight on how we live and interact with each other. His works exuberantly transport the viewer to a world of friendly fantasy.

His solo exhibition "Rodney Alan Greenblat's Reality and Imagination: Two Taste Treats in One", which was organized by the Palmer Museum, Pennsylvania State University, included an art/play area for children and their parents. His work has been exhibited in numerous group exhibitions including the "1985 Whitney Biennial", Whitney Museum of American Art; "Television's Impact on Contemporary Art", The Queens Museum, Flushing, New York; and "Group Show". the Palladium, New York City. Rodney Alan Greenblat is a creator of intriguing and whimsical art. He is the author and illustrator of children's books, and creator of interactive computer art and games for children and adults. His paintings and sculpture have been exhibited in galleries and museums around the world.