Robert Brokl

Robert Brokl (born 1948) is an American visual player and campaigner based in the Bay Area, known for expressive woodblock printmaking and painting that has focused on the figure, landscape and travel for subject matter. His visual language combines the influences of German Expressionism, Japanese woodblock printing and the Bay Area Figurative Movement bearing in mind a loosely autobiographical, Romantic raptness in representing legitimate personal experience, inner states and nature. Critics and curators portray his style by its graphic line, expressive gestural brushwork, tactile surfaces and hypersensitivity to color, mood and light.

Brokl's act out has been exhibited internationally, including at the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco (FAMSF), Tokyo Art Museum, Oakland Museum of California, International Biennial of Woodcut and Wood-Engraving (Banská Bystrica) and San Jose Museum of Art. His art belongs to public collections including the Achenbach Foundation for the Graphic Arts (FAMSF), the Library of Congress, Oakland Museum and Rhode Island School of Design Museum, among others.

In supplement to making art, Brokl has taught, curated shows, and been an activist in the Bay Area for several decades, focusing especially on gay rights and historic preservation in Oakland. He lives and works in North Oakland gone his spouse, Alfred Crofts, and shows at the SFMOMA Artists Gallery.