Her work is intricate and complex, and above all, thoughtfully conceived. Connections, for example, is a mixed media piece of hefty cutout human and animal figures, resembling modern cave art. The shapes are painted a raw earth color and placed in random order on the white wall. The energy from the interplay of both negative and positive shapes is striking. Robinson, a book artist, expands the nature of a book.
Some works reveal all a book's hand painted pages at once.
Others look at books as they die. Peter Hujar , a photographer who died of AIDS about ten years ago, photographed his friends and other artists who populated the East Village scene in New York during the 1980s. His black and white photographs of the famous, the infamous and the unknown articulate the compassionate way in which he was able to bring his camera between himself and his subject and make the camera disappear. Her black and white photographs depict children playing in the streets, graffitied walls as well as the industrialization of New York City. Your awareness of relationships between Vincent Van Gogh and his perception of the art and culture of Japan is heightened in this companion exhibition to Van Gogh's Van Goghs , Van Gogh and the Japanese Print .