Robin Glassman

 In Memory

Website:  http://robinglassman.org/
Instagram: @Robin Glassman
Contact: John Berman johnsb725@gmail.com

 Combining biomorphic and geometric lines and shapes with intricate details, Robin Glassman’s mixed media artworks play with the blurry lines that divide the natural world from the more abstract and fantastical one. Inspired by travels, dreams and an obsession with collecting, her playful and, sometimes, spiritual art pieces evolve organically through improvised mark making and meditation.

“My latest series transforms unfinished collages from the 90s and 00s into new abstractions. The act of returning to these earlier works has given me the freedom to build up layers and take risks. By spontaneously exploring and incorporating recent collected materials, my process imbues the original, somewhat flat, pieces with new life!”

These mixed media drawings, paintings, and collages include art materials such as: colored pencils, ink, markers, acrylic paint, watercolors, crayons. They also incorporate assorted collected materials, beads, greeting cards, old calendars and magazine images, napkins, paper tape, PET scans, capsules, plastic oxygen tubing, and bits and pieces from old drawings.

Glassman has lived in Windsor Terrace, Brooklyn since 1990. She also spends time with her husband John, in Accord, NY at the house they named “RJ Falls.” The contrast of the structural city and natural abstractions of the country has a strong influence on her artwork. She’s inspired by walking and sitting in nature or by their waterfall and by playing indoors and outdoors with both collected and found objects and natural materials. Her recent medical challenges have also played a role in her latest works. In addition, by practicing Taoist Meditation, Chi Gong and Wu-style Tai Chi for the past twenty years, Robin integrates those principles into daily life and art.

Selected exhibitions include the following: In 2018, Glassman was invited to be the first artist to have a solo exhibition at the Charles Hallac Art Gallery at Memorial Sloan Kettering. At other NYC venues, she showed collages, drawings, paintings, assemblages, and installations at Ivy Brown Gallery in a 2017 solo show and at Merkin Concert Hall Gallery. Her works have been shown at Brooklyn Bridge State Park and BRIC and for numerous years at BWAC. In the Hudson Valley, two mixed media sculptures were included in the ISDay Saugerties 2019, J.J. Newberry curated by Jen Dragon, Cross Contemporary Art, and a site-specific installation was included in the 2009 Kingston Biennial. Her work has also been shown at SUNY Ulster, Stone Ridge and Greene County Council on the Arts, Catskill, NY.