robin adsit
Robin Adsit received her B.F.A from the San Francisco Art Institute with an emphasis in painting and drawing. She went on to complete an M.A. in Painting and Drawing from San Francisco State University, and an M.F.A. in Painting and Drawing from The Ohio State University. Robin's paintings and drawings have appeared in numerous national and regional exhibitions and include, Generations at Woman Made Gallery, The Indivisible Spectrum at The Painting Center, Out of Office at Collar Works, ...and elsewhere, an exhibition of five west coast artists at Charles Long Projects.
“My paintings are primarily oil glazes on paper and panel and watercolor on paper that combine drawing and painting. I paint figures that are linked through gesture, intention, and proximity and explore human bodies as archives, with a focus on body language as a signifier of power, desire, longing and absence.
My work draws from both the body and the environment interweaving figural representations with spatial disruptions and relationships created using the emotive, spatial and psychological use of color and shapes. My interests lie in how we navigate and interpret gender, memory, materials and space and how this can define the body with an emphasis on the representation of the body as a site of subtle slippage between observation and illusion.
I have always been interested in beginning my paintings and drawings from observation, looking at skin, light, shadow, muscles, fat, body position and understanding how careful observation can create desire but also removal. Perhaps this is rooted in my desire to better understand how political and personal histories are inherent in our awareness of both ourselves and others. My paintings present an interrelated collection of figural and material gestures and spaces whose meaning is determined by their relationship to each other.”
