Greg Kitchen is proud to present paintings by Robert Kitchen (1949-2009), whose last New York City solo exhibition in 2014, was organized by writer and curator Vince Aletti at White Columns, Manhattan. About Robert Kitchen’s life works and influences, Aletti has said: “Robert was a painter who also collaborated with his twin brother, Richard, on designs for linens, fine china, and other household products.” Their work was celebrated and written up in interviews in the New York Times, Home Magazine and Interiors and publicized internationally, winning the Bill Blass Award, 1992.

After graduating from Philadelphia’s Tyler School of Art, Robert Kitchen moved to New York, where, in the mid-1980s, he was included in successful group shows at the Sidney Janis Gallery then had solo exhibitions at the Stefanotti and Diane Brown galleries. He put painting aside to focus on his design work in 1987, but returned to it in the mid ‘90s. 

Although Robert Kitchen had wonderful solo shows at Daniel Reich and Kagan Martos, much of the work he did after the turn of the new century was never exhibited, and his last solo outing, at Jeffrey Deitch in 2004, could only hint at the range of the paintings and drawings stacked up in his studio. Greg Kitchen presents a small sampling of that sprawling body of work – a group of paintings whose subjects were drawn from film, storybook illustration, a vivid imagination, and life. 

Please contact Greg Kitchen at [email protected]