ROBERT
INDIANA

Robert Indiana, born Robert Clark (New Castle, September 13, 1928 – Vinalhaven, May 19, 2018), was an American artist, set designer, and costume designer, associated with the Pop Art movement.Indiana moved to New York in 1954 and joined the Pop Art movement, using characteristic image drawings to create approaches to commercial art blended with existentialism, which gradually evolved into what Indiana called "sculptural poetry." Indiana's work often consists of bold, simple, iconic images, particularly numbers and short words like "EAT," "HUG," and "LOVE." He is also known for painting the extraordinary basketball court once used by the Milwaukee Bucks in their arena, the U.S. Cellular Arena, featuring a large M shape that spans the two halves of the court. His sculpture in the lobby of the Taipei 101 skyscraper, called 1-0 (2002, aluminum), uses multicolored numbers to suggest the conduct of global commerce and human life patterns.