Simultaneously serious and humorous the work of Andrew Cornell Robinson encompasses drawing, printmaking, ceramics, sculpture, fashion, photography, music, and collaboration as performance through process. Each element is connected by the abstraction and distortion of a reimagined narrative that he creates images and artifacts for and about. Flying in the face of traditional craft, Robinson’s ceramics are distorted objects; from pottery to weapons, and uniforms, to improbable things he explores thematically controversial themes including the inner life of revolutionaries, class war, aristocratic entitlement, criminality, agitprop, queer sexuality, etc. Robinson’s work tackles dualities and notions of guilt and innocence, transgression and hypocrisy, privilege and terror, violence, sexuality, revolution and humor. This monograph offers a series of essays, a poem by Steve Turtell presented as a manifesto; revealing intriguing insights into the world that Andrew creates in drawings, printmaking, costume, photography, and ceramics.

Bloodlines is a project that celebrates and honors the radical queer histories that have often remained hidden in plain sight.

Morass is a synthesis of drawing and sculpture that converges into a dynamic environment in which line and gravity, light and shadow seem to fluctuate between two- and three-dimensional space that emphasizes weight like hanging everything on overburdened sculptural gallows.

“He looked into the hole, and like any hole it said, Jump.” ― Susan Sontag, The Volcano Lover: A Romance

This work was created during while working at Urban Glass in New York City where I began silkscreen printing portraits with glass enamel that was then melted into hand rolled glass sheets.

Inspired by the Three of Cups Tarot card, which is said to resonate with a spirit of creativity, wisdom, abundance, and harmony. Creating by throwing a white stoneware clay on the wheel, and extruding exaggerated handles to hang these sculptural cups from an oak gallows, a nod to my ancestor a woman accused of witchcraft in Salem.

A Queer Pentimento: camouflage and abstraction through ceramic sculptural assemblage

This series of ceramic, glass and mixed media grottos are loosely based on a beehive form derived from drawings I made of reliquaries and stone carvings I observed while traveling in Italy and France.