Two people are working in front of a wall decorated with framed landscape paintings. The paintings depict various outdoor scenes like hills, skies, rivers, and mountains. The person on the right is bald, wearing glasses, and a black hoodie with an orange logo on the back. The person on the left has curly hair and is facing away from the camera. The table in front has cans of spray paint and other art supplies.

Robert Anke is an award winning painter born and raised in California. Represented by Studio Seven Arts, he’s lived everywhere from the southern reaches of the state to Humboldt County in the north. He’s spent the last thirty years in the Bay Area, the majority of them teaching art.

His love for the outdoors and the iconic landscapes we share is immediate and impactful. His degrees in Art and Sociology reveal themselves in the holistic, tender manner in which he depicts California’s people, sharing in their humanity and humor. His work has garnered praise, from winning the prestigious, annual “Slopes of Diablo” contest, to being a salon finalist in Modern Impressionist Magazine.

His paintings embody our state: its sun-soaked beaches, rolling hills and oaks, its unique people, flora, and fauna. He executes this with an economy of stroke that speaks of the paint while clearly depicting the muse of his representations: our Golden State. 

His is a body of work that is quintessentially Californian.

Solo Exhibitions:

2026- Lindsay Dirkx Brown Gallery, San Ramon CA

2026- Marilyn Citron O'Rourke Art Gallery, Benicia CA

Press:

Benicia Magazine June 2025

Epperson Gallery Feb 2026

Exhibitions:

2026- Newport Beach Art Exhibition, Newport Beach CA

2026- The Studio Door, San Diego CA

2025 & 2026- Epperson Gallery, Crockett CA

2025- Las Laguna Gallery, Laguna Beach CA

2025- Art Works Downtown, San Rafael CA

2025- Moraga Art Gallery, Moraga CA

2025- Gallery 621, Benicia CA

2024- Voss Gallery, San Francisco CA

2024- Helvella Art Gallery, Oakland CA

2024- Sanchez Art Center, Pacifica CA

2024- Rice Gallery of Fine Art, Kansas City

2024 & 2025- Main Street Arts, Martinez CA

2024- Papillon, Lafayette CA

2024- Once Upon a Canvas, Benicia CA

2023 & 24- Blackhawk Gallery, Danville CA

2023, 24, & 25 aRt Cottage, Concord CA

2023 & 24- Arts Benicia Gallery, Benicia CA

2020- 2026- Valley Art Gallery, Walnut Creek CA

2020- Save Mt. Diablo Benefit, Walnut Creek CA

2019 & 23- Village Art Gallery, Danville CA

2019- Jennifer Perlmutter Gallery – Lafayette CA