Djerassi Resident Artists Program | Robert Buelteman - Djerassi Resident Artists Program

Robert Buelteman

Passages #13/40, 1996

Hand-made Silver-gelatin print; Framed
15 inches x 22 inches (framed to 32 inches x 30 inches)
$3,400 – Sold

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Biography

Robert Buelteman is an artist whose fascination with transcendence is reflected in his photographs, which portray the universe as alive and life as sacred. His prints are a powerful extraction of beauty and substance revealing unrecognized dimensions in the commonplace.

Mr. Buelteman developed his love of the landscape as a child growing up in the town of Woodside on the peninsula south of San Francisco. His work for environmental organizations including Sempervirens Fund and the Peninsula Open Space Trust inspired the veneration of life and light that appear in his photographs today.

He has enjoyed artist residencies at Stanford University, the Santa Fe Institute, and, of course, multiple residencies at Djerassi, where he honed his craft and led several workshops inviting participants to develop “Ways of seeing, ways of being” to open new creative possibilities. His monographs include The Unseen Peninsula (1995), ten years on the Crystal Springs Watershed, Eighteen Days in June (2000), his first residency at the Djerassi Resident Artists Program, and Signs of Life (2017), selected works from his cameraless images.

He has received accolades from institutions as diverse as the United States Congress, the Commonwealth Club of California, and the Natural Resources Defense Council. Since 2010 his art has been the subject of essays in 23 languages on six continents around the globe and is found in public and private collections worldwide, including the Stanford University Medical Center, Kohlberg Kravis Wallace, Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital, Yale University Art Museum, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Adobe Systems, Xerox, and Nikon.