Tilton Gallery is delighted to present a new body of work by Abby Robinson in a solo exhibition at the Independent Art Fair, May 11th - 14th, 2023. Robinson explores multiple forms of abstraction through an intuitive and materially-based practice. Her work includes paintings on canvas and wood, colorful plaster sculptures, and large-scale installations.
Robinson makes paintings, drawings and sculptures that operate as environments that explore formal questions of space, color, scale, and form. Her approach is at once deliberate and spontaneous, even playful, in its consideration of these formal concerns. Material improvisations cross formal boundaries between paintings, sculptures, drawings and objects. Elements recur and morph across mediums revealing moments of alignment, tension, and divergence. The physical negotiation between artist and material is at the core of Robinson's practice.
The immediacy of drawing and line unites all elements of the work, conjured as mark, trace, and spatial delineation; it appears as a metal or string sculptural element, a graphite line across a canvas, or as the undulating edge of her plaster sculptures. In Robinson's installations, the line is challenged: draped chains defy the precision of the grid as structure. The delicacy of her formal enviorments is accentuated by her specific palette of soft hues, punctuated with moments of saturation and the dynamism of her worked-upon surfaces. These elements, set in dialogue, underscore the living, breathing nature of visual experience that Robinson's practice explores.
Abby Robinson was born in 1984 in New Orleans, LA and received her Masters of Fine Arts from Columbia University School of the Arts in 2022. Her work has been featured in New American Paintings (2022), Architectural Digest, and exhibited in several group exhibitions including at The Fireplace Project in East Hampton, NY, half gallery in New York, NY, bungalow at Westbeth Gallery in New York, NY and Golsa Gallery in Oslo, Norway. Robinson lives and works in New York.