| Atlanta based artist Guy Robinson's works have been exhibited in numerous galleries and have a place in important collections including the Museum Of Contemporary Art, Georgia (MOCA,GA). Guy attended the Atlanta College Of Art on a Ford Foundation grant and has worked extensively in painting, sculpture, printmaking, and drawing. He has over twenty five years experience teaching drawing for Emory University's continuing education program. Guy spent a number of years as a recorder specialist with early music consorts, also building and performing on renaissance lutes and other historical instruments. He was a guest artist with the baroque consort "Apollo's Musicke"; writing, directing, costuming, and performing. As a martial artist and teacher, Guy has experience with Yang, Sun, and Kwan Ping styles of T'ai-chi; Ba Gua, Hsing I, Liu He Ba Fa, as well as traditional Chinese weapons. He also designs and builds swords and has written articles for martial arts magazines. As an amateur paleontologist he has worked with Dr. David Schwimmer of Columbus College in the discovery of three new species of middle Cambrian trilobites. Recently he spent several years designing and handcrafting a lake cabin. Guy believes that each of these, and other, wide- ranging skills feeds and informs the other. |
| I have always thought of painting as a kind of personal theater. It is sometimes an uncomfortable entertainment. I want to make images that sing hymns and love songs, but also stick out a tongue and tap dance on the table. I enjoy playing on traditional subjects (still life, landscape, the figure, mythology, religious images) and the expectations that have grown up around them - as around how we see reality in general. The nature of life is that appearances are changeable and deceptive. So, paradox is always the subject. To say almost anything about art can sound a little pretentious. In truth, for me, theories come after the work is done - not before. I am not illustrating any theory. I do not want the viewer to feel there are correct answers, (no pop quizzes will be given). I have never paid too much attention to developing a 'style'. Style is something which happens when you let yourself be yourself while you work. We all choose our best tools. Every few years somebody pronounces painting a dead art form - or it is only seen as an expensive form of decoration. It may well be that painting has, more and more, become a curiosity about which few are curious. But there will always be art and poetry. It is the way we express the otherwise inexpressible - the alchemical process of seeking out who we are. |
Someone asked me if I was an optimist or a pessimist. I said, "No, I'm a surrealist. I expect bizarre things to happen." |
| Guy Robinson |
| Selected solo exhibitions |
| Selected Collections |
| Macon And Company, Fine Arts, Atlanta, Ga. |
| Albany Museum Of Art, Albany, Ga. |
| Art Society of the International Monetary Fund, Washington, D.C. |
| CNN Center Gallery, Atlanta, Ga. |
| Trinity Fine Arts Group, Atlanta, Ga. |
| Albany Museum Of Art, Albany, Ga. |
| Museum Of Contemporary Art, Ga. (MOCA,GA) |
| Kemper Collection, Long Grove, Illinois |
| Hans Frabel, Atlanta, Ga. |
| Georgia Tech Gallery, Atlanta, Ga. |
| For pricing and information or for image use or reproduction permission please contact me at guy@guyrobinsonart.com |
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| *Paintings are signed G. Robinson |
| Represented in Atlanta by : Twenty 21 Collections contact: Erin Wertenburger 2021collections@bellsouth.net tel: 404-816-9977 |
