Raised in Leesburg, Virginia, Robert Louis Schmaltz witnessed a wooded wonderland get buried under an alien architectural sprawl of imposed monoculturalism. The creek where he would once fish had become the cement slab of a four-lane highway. Now fascinated by emergent systems, the world's logic machine, and the malleable terms within finite parameters, Robert's art investigates the resonance that feeds from the human, through the environment, back through the human to reciprocate again.
In his site-specific performances, installations, and sculptures, Robert uses site-specific materials to dissolve the tension between structural development and pre-existing environments. Robert uses DV recording devices and digital photography to record the process of installing the site works. "There's a dialog between the living breathing me, my social body, my physical actions, and the living, responsive and engaging environment that if ignored would really telescope away the periphery of the art onto the object."
Robert lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. Robert's work has been shown The Bond Gallery (New York, NY), The Royal Academy of Great Art (New York, NY), The Visual Arts Gallery (New York, NY). His site-specific installations, sculptures and performances can be seen at a variety of locations in Brooklyn, NY and New York, NY