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- Artist Name:
- Renee Robbins
- Location:
- Kankakee, Illinois
- Statement:
- My work uses vivid colors, rhythmic lines, and meticulous textures to create a landscape of mind, a metaphor for how our exterior and interior selves come together. Hybrid forms – created through layers of acrylic paint such as thin washes, transparent glazes, sculptural modeling paste, and gel mediums – seem to suggest complexities within the human mind. Integrated with the paint are different materials such as string, paper, sand, fabric, and lace, which create focal points and transitions between interior and exterior notions.
The work sources structures from molecular, biological, architectural, celestial, and cultural systems. I see interrelationships between systems that have public and private possibilities. For example, the patterns of internal molecular systems may be blended with the exterior structure of plants, combined with bits of an architectural framework and then embedded within a larger celestial formation.
Our experience is layered with complex systems reaching through tiny cells, flowering vegetation, and distant galaxies. The abundance of sensory information in the paintings is like the external environment we often find ourselves in. One could consider the varied surroundings we encounter everyday ranging from grass, to organisms, to the compartments in a drawer. The color, scale, and material of that surface changes and affects our psyche. I see landscape as a point where the terrestrial plain meets the sky and as a primal human condition which acts as a metaphor for the public and private self.
- Biography:
- Renee Robbins currently lives and works in Chicago, Illinois. She received her BFA from the University of Kentucky, followed by the MFA in painting from Michigan State University. As an artist, her work has been recognized with awards, grants, publications, and through selection for national exhibitions. Her selected exhibition highlights include the Alden B. Dow Museum of Science and Art, South Bend Regional Art Museum, Birmingham Bloomfield Art Center, Ai Gallery, University of Illinois at Chicago, and was the featured artist at Function+Art during Chicago Artists Month. She received a grant from College of Arts and Letters to study in Tokyo, Japan and her work can be found in the publication “Best of Michigan Artists and Artisans”, 2006.
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