Robert, owner and curator of Abrams Claghorn Gallery is a lifelong resident of the East Bay, minus a few formidable years spent working in his family’s business, Sam Ash Music, located in New York City. In 1993, while still in New York, Abrams began his art practice. He moved back to the Bay Area in 2000 and went on to earn Masters in Fine Art Sculpture in 2007 at Academy of Art University, San Francisco, having previously earned a Bachelor’s Degree in Organizational Psychology at UC Berkeley in 1986. He currently shows his artwork at Room Art Gallery in Mill Valley, CA, Turtle & Hare in Downtown Oakland, CA, and exhibits regularly in solo and group shows in the greater San Francisco Bay Area. Robert is a part owner of the Potters’ Studio in Berkeley, sits on the Solano Avenue Association board, and teaches at Laney College and at the Mill Valley Potters Studio.His latest venture is a small teaching studio in El Cerrito, Ca called MudWorks Pottery.