EARLY WORKS
PHOTOWORKS
DEMOGRAPHICS
“SIGNS OF FAITH”
ENDWORLD
FLOWERED SNOWMEN
ART OBJECTS A PLACE TO START: SELF-CONTAINED VISUAL & MATERIAL ARTIFACTS, BY INTENTION WIDE OPEN TO INTERPRETATION — ART, IN SHORT… (ONLY A PERIODIC MODE OF PRODUCTION, AS IT TRANSPIRED…).
EARLYWORKSPHOTOWORKSDEMOGRAPHICS
SIGNS OF FAITHENDWORLDFLOWERED SNOWMEN
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SELECTED EARLY WORKS. 1980s NEW YORK… “THE CHILDREN OF BARTHES AND COCA-COLA”… INFOTAINMENT… “ARTISTS WHO USE HUMOR IN THEIR WORK”…
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PHOTOWORKS 1987 “THE CAMERA BELIEVES EVERYTHING”… THE MEANS BECOMES THE SUBJECT… TOWARDS AN EMOTIVE STRUCTURALISM… DIRECTION ABANDONED.
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Demographics are made entirely in the camera through normal photographic procedures. The images are neither electronically generated nor enhanced in the darkroom. LEARN MORE
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The fusion of “sacred” and “rational” architectures provides a metaphor for the psychology of the art gallery, the site which accomodates the production of both “mystery” and “analysis.” Placing such fusions in a gallery, then, creates a kind of psychoanalytic stage set for the gallery. In effect, the gallery is caused to exhibit stills from a movie about its unconscious life. LEARN MORE
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ENDWORLD (BOOKS BY ANOTHER DAVID ROBBINS) 1985-1994 TWENTY-FOUR PAPERBACK BOOKS, EACH INDIVIDUALLY ENCASED IN SOLID LUCITE
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FLOWERED SNOWMEN 1996-2006 COLORED PENCIL DRAWINGS AND ROLAND FJ-540 “DAVINCI” GICLEE PRINTS
The Flowered Snowmen seem to be for children but the emotional location they speak to is drawn from adult experience. You have to have lived a bit to know what they’re talking about. LEARN MORE
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Pictured at top of page: Curtain of Rejected Slides (detail) 1986
