47.25″×50.25″; acrylic, alkyd spray paint, gesso, graphite, shellac on MDO and OSB; 2025. Courtesy of the artist.
COLLAGE ON VIEW
Rob Hitzig: Planting Confusion, Sowing Doubt
at the Vermont Supreme Court Gallery in Montpelier, Vermont, USA
9 January-27 March 2026
Rob Hitzig writes, “I started thinking about this new series after going to the NYC Armory Show in February 2020. I saw a couple of artists using OSB plywood, and I fell in love with its texture. I also loved the idea of transforming a construction-grade material into fine art. After struggling with my analog tools to create what I envisioned, I set the project aside until I found someone with a CNC router who could cut my designs exactly as I wanted. This show is the result of my five-year journey contemplating what to create with this beautiful and overlooked material.”
46″×46.5″; acrylic, alkyd spray paint, gesso, graphite, and shellac on MDO and OSB; 2025. Courtesy of the artist.
“I love to create intuitively constructed random shapes, amorphic or geometric, because they are a way for me to represent the nature of beings. It seems our forms aren’t an accurate depiction of who we really are. I feel that the more realistic an image, the less accurate it becomes. Using random shapes helps me to share my sense that living things are ever-changing and ineffable. It helps me to capture a split-second essence of a being while also suggesting its potential to be something completely different in the very next instant.”
(text adapted from material provided by the artist)
INFORMATION
Vermont Supreme Court Gallery
inside the lobby of the Vermont Supreme Court
111 State Street
Montpelier, Vermont 05602 USA
(802) 828-0749
Hours:
Monday-Friday, 8AM-4:30PM
(closed for an hour during the lunch hour)