Join us for our 8th Uncommon Artist of the 2025 season, Jon Roberts, for an Artist talk Saturday April 19th from 12-1pm in the Halyard Library followed by a tour of his studio.
Jon Roberts is a sculptor and mixed media artist whose work explores the fluid boundary between object and image. His simplified, fragmentary forms—often echoing faces and figures—emerge from raw materials in ways that shift with perspective, inviting moments of recognition, emotion, and wonder. Rooted in natural elements like sky, water, and shoreline, his sculptures seek to bridge human experience with the landscape, revealing a layered interplay of perception and presence.
Roberts’ recent residencies in La Gomera, Spain, and Savannah, Georgia, have deepened his engagement with environmental themes. He will exhibit at the Wassaic Project Summer Exhibition and was recently awarded a Fellowship for Environmental and Social Justice at the Vermont Studio Center. Earlier in his career, he co-founded Burlington, Vermont's first South End Art Hop and assisted Pat Parsons of the Webb and Parsons Gallery with exhibitions including New York’s Outsider Art Fair. He studied Physics and Studio Art at Bates College, an interdisciplinary background that continues to inform his investigations into structure, materiality, and meaning.
