Roberto Azank

By 1996 Roberto had a distinctive style and moved to New York City to show his work. 

Azank’s Chi Kung teacher, Dr. Harold Koning, was a friend of New York gallery owner Robert Miller, who proved helpful in getting the emerging work noticed. He showed some of Azank's early Still Lifes and bought #41 off the easel. He also introduced him to people that would prove instrumental in Azank’s career. Poet Charles Henri Ford became a close friend. Art critic Lee Klein would write several essays on Azank’s work.  

Miller wrote, "Roberto's work is very beautiful, resolved and poignant, particularly because the vehicle for the poignancy is the Still Life". Two paintings were kept in the artist's collection as mementos of his first gallery mentor.

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As the style developed, many US shows followed. In San Francisco Eleonore Austerer became a champion of his work as it grew more complex in scale and composition. After a decade of one man shows in San Francisco and Palm Desert a series of Lotus paintings further developed the style in a new direction, culminating most recently with the highly complex multiple flower Tulip paintings. The Tulip Orgy has been on the artist’s easel, non-stop and developing and emerging over the last 6 years. In the meantime it was exhibited 3 times, each deemed “finished” only to resume its transition once the show had ended. A series of 1001 Close-ups of Tulip Orgy is in progress, so the viewer can see each composition in its own right. They are being shown thru social media as they happened in real time.