Robert Yarber

Robert Yarber (born Dallas, Texas, 1948) is an American painter and Professor of Art at Pennsylvania State University.

Howard Finster, Cheryl Laemmle, Jedd Garet, April Gornik, and Eric Fischl) represented in the United States pavilion.

[5] Yarber has been credited with influencing the Terry Gilliam film Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1998).

Critic Annabel Osberg of Artillery writes, “Robert Yarber‘s spellbinding nocturnal realms feel at once familiar and otherworldly, each of his paintings is far weirder than the sum of its parts, with generic characters and unplaceable urban locales coalescing into bizarre, morbid scenarios.”[8] His 2013 work Panic Pending inspired a collaboration with literary theorist Herbert Marks, who published a piece The Ugly Baby and the Beautiful Corpse: Robert Yarber’s Gnostic Comedy in that year’s Yearbook of Comparative Literature.

Two recent shows at Sonnabend Gallery in New York have highlighted Yarber's integration of non dual Vedanta and Upper Amazonian Shamanism into his drawings and paintings.