Robert Buelteman

Robert Buelteman is a fine-art photographer whose passion is life and light. From his sought after black-and-white landscape works to his unique camera-lens- and computer-free “energetic photograms,” his inquiry into nature celebrates and questions our role in the found world. As a pioneer working at the nexus of art and science, he has enjoyed residencies at the Santa Fe Institute in New Mexico from 2013-2016, at Stanford University’s Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve from 2010-2014, and had six residencies at Djerassi Resident Artists Program in Woodside California since 1996, where he will be teaching a week-long workshop in 2016.

Robert Buelteman: Painting with Energy

Following Joseph Campbell, I also believe that the purpose of art is to “break windows through the walls of culture to visit eternity.” This particular collection of images, titled Life and Shadow, is my fifth series of energetic photograms. Unlike my previous portfolios that were geographically based, this selection is intended to be an evolutionary…