ARTIST STATEMENT
I create organic and abstract objects and installations using clay, fiber and found or repurposed materials. Driven by materiality, I combine textures to explore points of physical, sensual and conceptual tension. My process relies on a sort of adaptive resonance theory, wherein form is inspired by misperception or the distortion of memory over time. I assemble, carve, stitch, and weave together seemingly disparate organic shapes and materials until something otherworldly yet viscerally familiar almost breathes before me.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Gina Lee Robbins is an Indianapolis-based visual and teaching artist. She’s been working in clay for 30 years, stitching for 45, and picking up artifacts along waterways, wooded paths, city alleys and thrift shops for as long as she can remember. She was awarded a 2024 Power Plant Grant by Big Car Collaborative with funding from The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts to support her project On the Count. In 2023 she received a third space/Fresh StART grant by Arts for Learning Indiana to temporarily disrupt a public school environment with museum quality artwork and installations. She has exhibited or curated in locales such as: the Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art, Koehnline Museum of Art, Masur Museum of Art, Freeport Art Museum, Harold Washington Library, Indianapolis Art Center, Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition, Bradley University Galleries, Jack Olson Gallery at Northern Illinois University, Rockford Museum of Art, St. Xavier University Gallery, University of Wisconsin Union South Gallery, and SOFA Chicago, among others. Her sculptures can be found in the collections of Hyatt, Eskenazi Health, and numerous other private and corporate sites worldwide.
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