Born in Sacramento, California, Rob Sato is a painter, illustrator and comic book artist. Sato has a B.F.A. California College of Arts & Crafts and currently lives and works in Los Angeles.
“The driving force behind his work is the compulsive desire to see a joke fleshed out. In setting out to make a painting, he begins with a cartoon, a story if you will, to build a world for a joke to live in. As the piece develops in layers of imagery with settings – both mundane and fantastic – a tiny little world emerges full of side stories, tweaked symbols, disguises, traps, tricks and the occasional red, white or blue herring. All bits fight harmoniously under a smokescreen of meticulous line work and magnetic watercolor. In his successes we are faced with a lifetime of undying visual investigation, never ending stories and constant brain food.” (from GalleryRevisited.com)
Sato is currently exhibiting at Copro Gallery in California. His show “Muscle Memories” runs alongside Naoto Hattori’s “Super Bionics” through August 28.
To see more of Sato’s work visit Rob Sato.com. There is also a great in-depth recent interview with the artist at ErraticPhenomena.com.
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