Retta - Artist's Statement and Portfolio

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Artist’s Statement

 

Retta Robbins

 

For me, art is making marks on a surface. I delight both in the play of colors as they modulate or activate one another in in lines actual or inferred.

 

Painting is an active dance with the canvas.  As Paul Klee observed “Art does not reproduce the visible; rather, it makes visible.”

 

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RE: Mixed Media Studio Practice

 

My inadvertent choice of photos of the Statue of Liberty influenced my work, which led to a commentary on the iconic nature of the statue itself.

 

The initial 24 media studies, using a variety of materials and supports, was very satisfying for me, and out of the many variations I was influenced by Picasso’s collage and cardboard structures.

 

For my final works, the supports were recycled from political posters, using cut/torn paper, cardboard forms, printed words, and paint to complete the compositions.

 

My works question liberty, freedom, and opportunity for all people.

 

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Final Portfolio – Mixed Media Studio Practice (Drawing and Mixed Media 14576)

 

Retta Robbins

 

1.	“Liberty”	26 x 36	collage, paint, xerox images
2.	“Whyyy”	27 x 25	collage, paint
3.	“Us/Them”	20 x 20	collage, print, paint
4.	“SE”	20 x 14	collage
5.	“Assemblage - Face”	8 x 16	wood, styrofoam, paper
6.	Cardboard figures		works in progress