I’m giving a public talk Wednesday night at 7pm on September 23, as part of the Transcender Artist Series at Equity Gallery, ahead of my solo exhibition opening there in November.
I’ll talk about Confabulations and Fantabulosas, the project supported by a NYSCA Artist Grant, and a new series of altarpiece assemblages made with ceramic and mixed media.
The talk is at 7pm at Equity Gallery, 245 Broome Street, NYC.
Wednesday, September 23, 7pm
Artists featured in the series include Phil Buehler, Benjamina Gunn, Stanford Kay, Michael Krasowitz, Brooke Lambert, Akbar Reid, and me, Andrew Cornell Robinson.
I’m looking forward to talking about the work, but also about how it gets made: the images, objects, materials, drawings, fragments, and stories that find their way into the studio and eventually become something else.
Selected works from the studio and the artist talk
Bellwether at Socrates
“What we do is we bring art to the people. And bringing art to the people has a kind of joy and liberation that nothing else can equal. It’s a gift.”
—Mark di Suvero
This summer I also began my residency and fellowship with Socrates Sculpture Park, where I’m building Bellwether, a large-scale stainless steel and ceramic sculptural installation about sound and community.
I adapted the work to a grove of trees at Socrates and built a three-dimensional CAD model to work out the stainless-steel structure and the placement of the ceramic maiolica-glazed bells.
The installation will be completed and open to the public on October 31 at Socrates Sculpture Park, 32-01 Vernon Boulevard, Long Island City.
Learn more about Bellwether at Socrates Sculpture Park
Back in the Studio
Both projects have given me a chance to move between drawing, digital modeling, ceramic fabrication, and large-scale construction.
Confabulations and Fantabulosas is leading toward the exhibition at Equity in November. Bellwether is moving from drawings and digital models into a physical structure that will live outdoors and be encountered by people walking through the park.
For me, the interesting part is the movement between those things. A drawing becomes a form, sound and experience. A digital model becomes a structure. A fragment of an image becomes part of a memory. Something made in the studio eventually leaves the studio and enters the world.
Bellwether CAD
