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

 

 

SELECTED EARLY WORKS. 1980s NEW YORK… “THE CHILDREN OF BARTHES AND COCA-COLA”… INFOTAINMENT… “ARTISTS WHO USE HUMOR IN THEIR WORK”…

 

 

PHOTOWORKS 1987 “THE CAMERA BELIEVES EVERYTHING”… THE MEANS BECOMES THE SUBJECT… TOWARDS AN EMOTIVE STRUCTURALISM… DIRECTION ABANDONED.

 

 

DEMOGRAPHICS 1987/88

Demographics are made entirely in the camera through normal photographic procedures. The images are neither electronically generated nor enhanced in the darkroom. LEARN MORE

 

 

“SIGNS OF FAITH” 1990

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

 

 

ENDWORLD (BOOKS BY ANOTHER DAVID ROBBINS) 1985-1994 TWENTY-FOUR PAPERBACK BOOKS, EACH INDIVIDUALLY ENCASED IN SOLID LUCITE

 

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

 

 

Pictured at top of page: Curtain of Rejected Slides (detail) 1986