Robert Dorlac is a plein air painter and printmaker who has worked as a welder, a park ranger, an oilfield geologist and a college professor. Dorlac was born in St. Louis, Missouri. He studied at the Kansas City Art Institute and earned a B.S. in Geology from the University of Missouri in Columbia. He received his MFA in painting from Southern Illinois University in Edwardsville. Dorlac is an Associate Professor of art at Southwest State University in Marshall, Minnesota. His work is included in the collections of the University of Miami, Purdue University, Wichita Center for the Arts and Grinnell College Center for Prairie Studies. In 2008, Dorlac was chosen to be an Artist in Residence at Isle Royal National Park and Petrified Forest/Painted Desert National Park.
"The landscape is my primary subject. Over the past 30 years I have lived and worked in Iowa, Missouri, Illinois, Oklahoma, Colorado, New Mexico and Minnesota. These areas have offered me opportunities to study a range of different environments and note man’s interaction with and alteration of these places. Remnants of grand ecosystems – what is left after the man-assisted mutation of the landscape into parking lots, malls or agriculture – are important places for me. I spend a great deal of time in prairie, forest, wetland, desert and alpine landscapes. These places are my studio." |
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