Bennett Roberts

As Bennett Roberts of the Los Angeles gallery Roberts & Tilton (one of the dealers currently representing McGee) remembers, "There were sixty panels.

Check out the ground-shifting conversation between USC Annenberg professor Chris Smith and Roberts & Tilton Gallery co-founder Bennett Roberts about the changes the Internet and stunning stock profits have brought to the world of modern art.

My drawings caught on a couple years ago when Bennett Roberts from Roberts & Tilton gave me a show.

Bennett Roberts, co-owner of Roberts & Tilton gallery in Los Angeles observes, "It doesn't happen very often that artists in a geographic area have similar styles.The scene in San Francisco is the most socially relevant.It is exposing the ills and benefits of street culture, but coming from an a positive, folk art vantage point."

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Roberts again, "Johanson, like numerous San Francisco compatriots, deals with all the elements of street culture: love, abandonment, poverty, happiness and drugs.

Bennett Roberts Co-owner bennett@robertsandtilton.com

Bennett Roberts of Roberts & Tilton, one of the fair organizers, outlined their quality-versus-quantity campaign."I've done the Armory before.You have a minute to spend with everyone.Here you have ten minutes to twenty minutes.You can create a miniature relationship with a potential collector.I've sold eighty percent of the work already and we're only halfway into the second day of the fair," he boasted.Perhaps in a bid to bring in serious buyers only, the fair was sparsely advertised."Word of mouth is creating the buzz," explained Roberts.
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Right: Gallerists Julie and Bennett Roberts at the LA Art Fair.