"Finding Language" Public Reception
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Upstate Gallery on Main 172 E. Main St., Spartanburg, South Carolina 29306
The art of Palmetto State resident Mary Robinson, whose dreamlike works evoke images of chaos and elemental forces, will be featured in her "Finding Language" exhibit at the Upstate Gallery on Main. The exhibit runs from Nov. 9 to Dec. 30, 2017, with a free public artist’s reception from 5 to 8 p.m. Nov. 16, during the Spartanburg Artwalk.
Drawing upon our complex and tumultuous relationship with nature, Robinson’s artworks invoke both the fluidity of the natural world and the intermittent — and at times dramatic — re-configurations due to natural disruption and renewal. Often mixing and remixing printmaking matrices along with cutting up and re-constructing prior paintings and drawings, the resulting enigmatic and dream-like images echo the inter-play and chaos of elemental forces at work in the world around us.
Robinson is an associate professor of art and head of printmaking at the University of South Carolina. She received a BFA in studio art from the University of Colorado, an MA in art history from the University of Wisconsin and an MFA in printmaking from Indiana University. Her work was recently included in "Independent Spirits: Women Artists of South Carolina" at the Columbia Museum of Art and has been exhibited broadly in the United States and internationally. For more information about Mary Robinson, please visit www.marysdrawings.com.