Abby Robinson
Bio: Abby Robinson (b. 1984, New Orleans, Louisiana) is a visual artist who lives and works in New York City. She is currently pursuing her MFA at Columbia University and will be featured in the forthcoming Spring issue of New American Paintings (No. 159, MFA Annual Issue).
www.abbyrobinsonstudio.com
Instagram: @abigailvrobinson
Thesis Exhibition
Artist Statement: Abby Robinson is a visual artist living and working in New York City. She makes paintings, drawings and sculptures that operate as experimental sites to explore the formal range of visual experience. Space, color, scale, and form converse through abstraction and play.
Material improvisations reveal moments of alignment, tension and/or divergence. Metal, plaster, foil, fabric, tape, clay, wood, textiles, oil and acrylic paints and found objects all come into the fold. Focused, intensive working of these materials builds a deep intimacy with each, generating honest questions about visual perception. Visual experience is understood both through the seen and unseen: architecture and light as much as memory and time. Casually bounded with nets, webs or sparse gridding, each composition creates space for multiple ways of being. Joy, beauty and vibrancy are as possible as grit, absence and profundity.
She is currently pursuing her MFA at Columbia University and was recently selected for New American Paintings MFA Annual Issue No. 159 as a Noteworthy Artist.
L to R: All I Want Is Everything (60" x 60", TBD, 2022); Expanded Aerial Drawing (56" x 66" x 41.375, Steel, leather, copper wire, brass, and wool, 2022); Adjustable Grid (Titian) (60" x 60", Oil, silk, wax, copper, rock, and thread on wood board, 2022); C-block revisited (36" x 7", Paper, plaster cloth, steel, acrylic, and plaster, 2022); Briland Bordello (48" x 48"Oil, acrylic, and paper crayon on canvas, 2022); Wall Drawing (Wide/XL), (84" x 100" x 5", Plaster, steel, brass, copper, aluminum, plastic and paper on wall, 2022); All I want is everything (4" x 8" x 3", Watercolor, oil, plaster and brass, 2022)
First Year Exhibition
Azo Confluence (48” x 48”, Oil, acrylic, crayon, canvas and photo on board, 2021)
