Andrew Cornell Robinson (born 1968) is an American artist and designer. He is based in New York City.
Career Robinson's work spans various media from ceramics and painting to printmaking and sculpture. His work combines humor, history, and sculptural forms and transforms ceramics into a very contemporary medium.Art Rx, by Hrag Vartanian, March 26, 2013 http://hyperallergic.com/67634/art-rx-57/ Robinson's sculpture explores memory and narrative through a sublime handling of materials and contrasts this with eccentric forms that touch upon personal and socio-political content through the use of craft and assemblage materials.Holliday, Frank, "Another Green World, Andrew Cornell Robinson In the Viewing Room" at Paul Sharpe Gallery, Gay City News, November 30, 2006.
Robinson's work is in private and public collections and has been exhibited widely at galleries and museums such as David & Schwietzer Contemporary, Christopher Stout Gallery, Anna Kustera Gallery and Paul Sharpe Projects, Eyelevel BQE Gallery in New York City, and the Ross Museum in Ohio, Baltimore Contemporary Museum, Saint Joseph's University Gallery https://sju.edu/news-events/news/revisionist-history-inspires-sculpture-sju-gallery|Andrew Cornell Robinson “Wishful Thinking”, December 19, 2017 and the Aldrich Museum of Art. His work has been featured in presentations by the Craft Council of the United Kingdom,Teleri, L-J, Assemble 2010, the Crafts Council conference, Crafts Magazine, 23 Jun 2010 Clay in the East at the Virginia Commonwealth University and the American Center for Design in Chicago. He has written art criticism and essays for Sculpture Magazine,Robinson, Andrew Cornell "How to Have Courage: A Conversation with Michelle Lopez". Sculpture Magazine. International Sculpture Center. Retrieved October 3,2 013. ArtCat,Ronbinson, Andrew (May 6, 2009). "Michelle Lopez with Andrew Robinson". ArtCat Zine. and The Gay City News. He was a founding member of the board of directors of the Foucault Society in the United States. He has received awards from CannesColoribus Advertising Archive, Cannes Lions 2007 - Cyber Lions Silver: ACTION HERO, http://www.coloribus.com/adsarchive/online-design/cannes-lions-2007-action-hero-10052755/ for digital media work and fellowships from The Edward Albee Foundation in 2010.Zellerford, David (October 2010). "Create or Else: Andrew Cornell Robinson". Create or Else.
His work has been the subject of reviews and essays by Frank Holliday, Hrag Vartanian and Zane Wilson. Wilson wrote about Robinson's work "Andrew Robinson’s work overlaps themes of multiple cultures, sexual identity, an absence of historical presence, political awareness executed through careful nods to art history through the genuine invention of beautifully crafted objects."Wilson Zane (2010). "Cobbling Together". Eyelevel BQE Gallery, Brooklyn, New York.
He teaches at Parsons The New School for Design in New York City, where he is an assistant professor."Robinson, Andrew" . Parsons School of Design. Retrieved October 3, 2013.
Early life and education Born in 1968 in New Jersey, United States. Robinson studied at the Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA) in Baltimore, Maryland and received a B.F.A. in Ceramics in 1991. In 1994, he received a M.F.A. in Sculpture from the School of Visual Arts in New York City.
References
External links Andrew Cornell Robinson's Website Arts + Crafts Research Studio Interview in Maake Magazine Transgressing Across Time and Line, Art Spiel BY Etty Yaniv Video interview with Andrew Cornell Robinson at the Edward Albee Foundation Algo más…, an interview with Colour Me In Andrew Cornell Robinson, Presentation at the Crafts Council, London, UK, 2010 ART CAT, Pick, 2010 Andrew Cornell Robinson interviews Michelle Lopez Disobedience And Through The Night Softly: Andrew Cornell Robinson And Gregory Green At Anna Kustera, by Catherine Spaeth, Huffington Post, 20 December 2011 Top Ten November shows in NYC, By Doug McClemont, Saatchi Online Magazine, November 15, 2011 Andrew Cornell Robinson at Anna Kustera by Christopher Robbins, Contemporary Myth-making Assemble, Crafts Magazine Online, London, 2010 Interview Andrew Cornell Robinson: Create or Else, New York, 2010