"CHELSEA COMOS" EXHIBIT • SEPTEMBER 9 - DECEMBER 9, 2023 • AMSTERDAM WHITNEY GALLERY
Galactic Explosion by Robert M. Swedroe is a hand-signed and numbered limited-edition framed canvas inspired by the explosive energy of the Big Bang. Brilliant orange, gold, blue, red, turquoise, and jewel-tone circular forms create a dynamic contemporary collage, professionally framed with a white mat, 70% UV-protective Art Glass, and a high-gloss black frame.
Bold, energetic, and extraordinarily detailed, Galactic Explosion is Robert M. Swedroe’s colorful artistic interpretation of the Big Bang—the immense burst of energy associated with the formation and expansion of the universe.
Rather than illustrating space literally, Swedroe approaches the subject through his signature surreal collage language.
Hundreds of circular forms appear to expand, collide, orbit, and radiate across a brilliant field of orange, amber, gold, yellow, red, blue, turquoise, pink, green, black, and jewel-toned color.
Large concentric circles create powerful visual anchors throughout the composition while progressively smaller forms fill the surrounding space. The result creates a remarkable sense of scale, depth, movement, and continuous discovery.
Swedroe built the original composition around round shapes and dimensional objects including pearls, beads, and buttons, transforming familiar materials into a richly layered interpretation of an orbital explosion.
From across a room, Galactic Explosion reads as an extraordinary field of color and energy. Viewed closely, hundreds of individual elements, patterns, textures, and concentric forms reveal themselves.
This museum-quality limited-edition canvas is hand-signed and individually numbered by Robert M. Swedroe and professionally finished for display.
The artwork is dry mounted on canvas and presented with a crisp white mat. It is protected by Art Glass offering 70% UV protection and finished in a smooth, professionally installed high-gloss black frame.
A hanging wire is professionally installed on the back so the artwork arrives ready to hang.
With its powerful orange palette and sophisticated abstract composition, Galactic Explosion makes an exceptional statement piece for a living room, dining room, office, entryway, gallery, luxury residence, hotel, restaurant, club, or contemporary commercial interior.
Artist: Robert M. Swedroe
Artwork Title: Galactic Explosion
Artwork Type: Museum-quality limited-edition framed canvas
Edition: Hand-signed and individually numbered
Overall Framed Size: 30 5/8″ W × 21 3/4″ H
Orientation: Landscape
Mounting: Dry mounted canvas
Mat: White mat presentation
Glazing: Art Glass with 70% UV protection
Frame: Smooth high-gloss black frame
Hanging Hardware: Professionally installed wire on back
Display: Ready to hang
Condition: New
Price: $1,650.00
Important: This is a hand-signed and individually numbered limited-edition fine art canvas based on Robert M. Swedroe’s original Galactic Explosion collage. It is not the one-of-a-kind original collage artwork.
Robert M. Swedroe approaches collage from a surreal perspective, creating compositions intended to encourage discovery and individual interpretation.
With Galactic Explosion, Swedroe turns his attention to one of the most dramatic concepts imaginable—the birth and expansion of the universe.
His interpretation of the Big Bang is not a traditional astronomical scene. Instead, circles of seemingly endless sizes expand across the composition like planets, stars, particles, shockwaves, and orbital systems.
Pearls, beads, buttons, circular forms, vibrant pigments, and layered patterns become the visual vocabulary for this explosion of cosmic energy.
The intense orange and gold background establishes heat and movement, while bursts of electric blue, turquoise, red, pink, green, white, and black create the impression of countless independent bodies moving within a larger universe.
It is an artwork designed to be experienced at multiple distances: commanding and dramatic from across a room, intricate and surprising when examined closely.
Galactic Explosion embodies many of the characteristics that distinguish Robert M. Swedroe’s contemporary collage work: architectural structure, intricate layering, dimensional imagery, intense color, repetition, rhythm, and visual discovery.
The composition contains hundreds of circular elements, but the work never feels static. Changes in scale and placement create constant movement throughout the image, giving the impression that forms are expanding outward, orbiting one another, or moving through space.
Its dominant orange and gold palette creates exceptional visual impact, while blue, turquoise, pink, red, green, and black accents introduce contrast throughout the composition.
The result works particularly well in sophisticated interiors featuring black, charcoal, navy, brass, bronze, warm wood, leather, cream, or neutral furnishings.
The artist signature, individual edition number, professional framing, UV-protective Art Glass, and ready-to-hang presentation make Galactic Explosion a collector-ready Robert M. Swedroe artwork designed for immediate display.
Robert M. Swedroe is an architect and mixed-media collage artist whose work combines the discipline of architectural design with extraordinary color, dimensional layering, pattern, rhythm, and visual storytelling.
His intricate compositions transform everyday forms and recognizable objects into complex visual environments that invite repeated exploration.
Swedroe’s architectural understanding of structure, balance, proportion, and spatial relationships remains evident throughout his collage work, creating compositions that feel simultaneously spontaneous and meticulously constructed.
Yes. Each limited-edition canvas offered in this collection is hand-signed by Robert M. Swedroe.
Yes. Each piece is individually numbered as part of the limited edition.
Robert M. Swedroe created Galactic Explosion as his colorful interpretation of the Big Bang and the explosive orbital energy associated with it.
The original collage incorporates numerous round forms and dimensional objects including pearls, beads, and buttons.
Yes. The work combines contemporary collage, abstraction, surrealism, geometric repetition, and celestial imagery rather than depicting space literally.
No. This is a museum-quality, hand-signed and individually numbered limited-edition canvas based on Robert M. Swedroe’s original Galactic Explosion collage.
Yes. It is professionally presented with a white mat and a smooth high-gloss black frame.
Yes. It is protected with Art Glass providing 70% UV protection.
The finished framed artwork measures approximately 30 5/8 inches wide × 21 3/4 inches high.
Yes. A professionally installed hanging wire is attached to the back.
Its dramatic horizontal format and rich color palette make it especially effective in living rooms, dining rooms, offices, entryways, galleries, luxury residences, restaurants, hotels, clubs, and contemporary commercial interiors.
The orange, gold, black, blue, turquoise and jewel-tone palette works particularly well with black, charcoal, navy, cream, brass, bronze, warm woods, leather, and sophisticated neutral interiors.
Colors may vary slightly depending on photography, screen settings, ambient light, and the lighting conditions where the artwork is displayed.
A hand-signed and individually numbered, museum-quality limited-edition print of Robert M. Swedroe’s Butterflies of the World. Dry mounted on canvas and professionally presented with a 1.5-inch white mat, 70% UV-protective Art Glass, and a high-gloss black frame. Measures 30 5/8 inches wide × 21 3/4 inches high and arrives ready to hang.
A hand-signed and numbered, museum-quality limited-edition print of Robert M. Swedroe’s Butterfly Nectar Chase. Dry mounted on canvas and professionally finished with a 1.5-inch white mat, 70% UV-protective Art Glass, and a high-gloss black frame. Ready to hang.
Bring the beauty of nature indoors with Butterfly Spring, a vibrant signed limited-edition fine art print by Robert M. Swedroe. Featuring colorful butterflies, layered mixed-media elements, and joyful movement, this collectible artwork celebrates transformation, renewal, and the wonder of the natural world.
Cosmic Energy by Robert M. Swedroe is a signed and numbered limited edition framed canvas featuring a vibrant green, gold, and jewel-tone abstract collage composition. Professionally dry mounted, framed in smooth high-gloss black lacquer, protected with Art Glass, and ready to hang.
Cosmic Firestorm by Robert M. Swedroe is a signed, numbered, limited-edition framed canvas featuring fiery orange, gold, amber, and jewel-tone collage detail. Professionally dry mounted, finished with a white mat, protected with Art Glass, and framed in a smooth high-gloss black lacquer frame, this piece is ready to hang and designed to make a statement.
A hand-signed and individually numbered, museum-quality limited-edition canvas of Robert M. Swedroe’s Feu D’Artifice Papillon. Bursting with butterflies, vivid color, and dramatic movement, this collector-ready edition is professionally framed with a white mat, UV-protective Art Glass, and a high-gloss black frame.
