The Robert Sesco Gallery
from
Robert Sesco
Artist
About the Artist:
In 1971 Mrs. Harris, my high school art teacher, recognized my potential as an artist and arranged a meeting for me with an art school representative. I was completely indifferent to art school, likely because I was playing football as a quarterback, having some success, and absorbed with continuing to play the game in college. Art school represented a diversion from this, and thus this meeting would ultimately be seen as the untaken fork in the road of my life. I have traveled many years to come back to this place in the road, recognizing it as an
old friend waiting patiently for me to accept my true nature. I went on to play a couple of years of college football, and puzzlingly, when I realized my physical limitations in that sport and that football would no longer be a huge part of my life, I did not immediately recognize Art as my fallback position. Instead, I plunged into life experiences: writing over fifty songs and singing and playing guitar on yachts and in mansions and hotels in Miami, bartending, a trip to Key West, a spiritual quest disguised as a motorcycle tour across the USA on Interstate 10, working various jobs and finding a decent fit in carpentry and residential contracting. Although my art manifested continuously through these filters I never came to embrace the fact that I was an artist, have always been an artist, and by most accounts, I have an artists vision and capabilities, just as my high school art teacher once foresaw. The catalyst for my embracing of the artistic impulse within me as a profession, presented itself in the form of the sudden economic downturn of 2008, which, as has happened several times in the last thirty years, punished me for no apparent reason. My reasoning has become, if I am to suffer the angst and humilities of diminishing income for no apparent cause of my own, then I can suffer the same while pursuing an activity for which I have passion. I've decided to embrace the 'tormented, starving' artist stereotype. We are prone to categorizing artists according to their medium; furthermore, I have no control over this. I do not aspire to be a 'type' of artist, I aspire to be a pure artist, one who looks at the raw material of the world and allows his awareness to seek the combinations which can be manipulated into beauty through the filters of his own vision. This is the wonderful aspect of different Artists, each of whom possesses a unique vision, and who create beauty where once there was none. I love the calling.
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