Robert Mack is a visual artist working in wide range of media including fine art photography, filmmaking, video installations and painting. Robert has exhibited his artwork in galleries throughout America and Europe, most notably with major exhibitions at the Baltimore Museum of Art and the Reiss-Engelhorn Museum in Mannheim, Germany. Both museums include Robert’s artwork in their permanent collections.

Robert’s NOT GUILTY BY REASON OF INSANITY a rare photographic and film study inside Maryland’s hospital for the criminally insane, where many of the men had committed murder during their psychotic episodes. These stark yet compassionate black-and-white portraits remain one of his most powerful and controversial bodies of work.

Robert’s ongoing fine art photograhy project is his WRAPPED SERIES where he covers subjects with sheer material creating intimate, beautiful and moody work that examines themes of dreams, sleep, beauty, emotion, death, even transcendence. Where the Christo’s mostly wrapped buildings, Robert wraps people.  

Robert started the ANXIETY SERIES, large oil paintings while sheltered in place during the pandemic, which continues today. Figures that are radically at odds with the world, and yet gazing out at it in a way that still presupposes the existence of an external world, perhaps is the most accurate and potent formal metaphor we have yet seen for the condition of Anxiety.  In this light, it also should be apparent why painting, not photography, was the medium necessary to achieve these images of par excellence, hopefully not of harbingers of human life in the digital and AI future.