I think of painting as a theatrical, time-based and sculptural media

Robert A. McCann is a Midwest-based artist and educator.  Born and raised in the Ozarks of southwest Missouri, he developed as a studio artist through studies at Missouri State University, Indiana University, and as a Fulbright scholar based in Berlin, Germany.  In the fifteen years since that time, McCann’s paintings have frequently dealt with the potential for metaphors in our byzantine mass media culture, and the overwriting of epic and intimate events in the particular artifice of painting. 

McCann is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Art, Art History & Design at Michigan State University.