Dorothy Robinson

  • Selected Works

    Off the Grid, 2018. Oil on panel, 36 x 36″

    Untitled With Flora, 2019. Oil on panel, 36 x 36″ sold

    Littoral Shift, 2019. Oil on panel, 36 x 40″ sold

    Full House, Oil on canvas, 48 x 64”

    Same Difference, 2019. Oil on canvas, 46 x 60” sold

  • Statement

    My landscape paintings explore a terrain of conflicting realities that collide on the canvas to mingle and eventually merge. I use oil paints mixed from powdered pigments —many of which are derived from rocks and earth. Broad strokes and gestural language accommodate memory, a train of thought, or a slip of the hand. I am committed to the idea of painting as an intuitive, open-ended process of exploration.

    Single point perspective doesn’t work here. Plans and intentions disappear, while other impulses assert themselves—echoes of larger, invisible forces constantly at work in the world.

  • Curriculum Vitae

    Education

    1993
    M.F.A., Painting, UC Berkeley

    1979
    Geography, UC Berkeley

    Awards and Honors

    2017
    Artist-in-Residence, MASSMoCA, North Adams, MA

    2015
    Grant Recipient, Lillian Orlowsky and Louis Freed Foundation, Provincetown, MA

    2012
    Artist-in-Residence, chaNorth, Pine Plains, NY

    2010
    Grant Recipient, Artists’ Fellowship Inc., NYC
    Grant Recipient, Change, Inc., Captiva, FL
    Grant Recipient, Left Tilt Fund, San Francisco, CA

    2009
    Artist-in-Residence, VCCA, Amherst, VA
    Artist-in-Residence, Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, NYC

    2008
    Grant Recipient, Pollock-Krasner Foundation
    Artist-in-Residence, Constance Saltonstall Foundation, Ithaca, NY

    2007
    Artist-in-Residence, Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, NYC
    Artist-in-Residence, Catskill Center for the Arts, Arkville, NY

    2005
    Alexander Rutsch Award for Painting, Pelham, NY

    2004
    Artist-in-Residence, Marie Walsh Sharpe Art Foundation Space Program, NY
    Artist-in-Residence, Caldera, Deschutes National Forest, OR

    2000
    Artist-in-Residence, Dorland Mountain Arts Colony, Temecula, CA

    1996
    Award of Merit, Matrix Gallery, Sacramento, CA

    1993
    Eisner Prize in the Creative Arts, UC Berkeley
    J. Ruth Kelsey Travel Award, UC Berkeley

    Solo Exhibitions

    2018
    Garrison Art Center, Off the Grid, Garrison NY

    2015
    527 Madison Avenue Lobby Gallery, Landscapes, New York City

    2013
    Artifact Gallery, Transitional Flow, New York City

    2012
    Schaefer Landing, Landscape Paintings, Williamsburg, Brooklyn

    2009
    Slate Gallery, Continental Drift, Williamsburg, Brooklyn

    2008
    Slate Gallery, Tectonics, Williamsburg, Brooklyn

    2005
    Pelham Art Center, Alexander Rutsch Award Exhibition, Pelham, NY

    2003
    Soularch Gallery, A Little Northwest of Eden, San Francisco, CA

    1995
    Worth Ryder Gallery, J. Ruth Kelsey Award Exhibit, Berkeley, CA

    Selected Group Exhibitions

    2019
    Pelham Art Center, HyperAccumulators, Pelham, NY
    Weatherspoon Art Museum, 2019 Art on Paper, Greensboro, NC
    r.blitzer gallery, Group Exhibition, Santa Cruz, CA

    2018
    Chroma Projects, Drawing Together: Five Bay Area artists reunite, Charlottesville, VA

    2016
    Provincetown Art Association and Museum, Provincetown, MA

    2014
    Pelham Art Center, Pelham, New York
    The Painting Center, Shifting Ecologies, NYC

    2012
    Artifact Gallery, Aftermath, New York City
    The Painting Center, Natural Constructed Spaces, NYC

    2010

    Storefront Gallery, Utopia/Dystopia, Bushwick, Brooklyn
    Leanne Hull Fine Art, Group Show, La Jolla, CA

    2008

    Slate Gallery, Black and White, Williamsburg, Brooklyn
    The Erpf Gallery, Arkville, NY

    2007

    The ’temporary Museum, The Impermanent Collection IV, Brooklyn, NY
    The Gallery at R&F, Not Seeing the Forest, Kingston, NY

    2005
    Edward Thorp Gallery, Presentations, NYC

    2004
    SFMOMA Artists’ Gallery, Out There, San Francisco CA

    1997
    Eloise Pickard Smith Gallery, Exemplary Contemporary, Santa Cruz, CA

  • Bibliography

    Erika Howsare, “Land Here Now”, C-ville Weekly, July 10 – 16, 2019.

    Blazej, Sara, “Aftermath at Artifact,”arterynyc.com/posts/aftermath-at-artifact/ 01-29-2013

    Braun, Lauren, “Spotlight on Dorothy Robinson,” http://thelaurenbraun.blogspot.com 2-15-2010

    Zucker, Adam, “Continental Drift On View in Brooklyn,” berkshirefinearts.com 6-29-2009