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Rae Robinson I work in a improvisational and interpretive style using many media. Unaware at first in which direction the Spirit is leading me, I allow time and space to pass until a connection is made that results in visual art.
A Book of the Mind THE
RITE OF SPRING I relate these drawings to the wax etching on the Ukranian Easter eggs “Pysanky” I created with my grandmother years ago.
Viewers imagine what they personally see, regardless of my personal vision and the drawing’s title. It is their individual reaction to the drawing that creates a lively exciting atmosphere. Exhibitions: Museum of American Art,
New Britain, CT 1960-1970 Private collections: Italy, Sweden, Japan, and United States
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Biography
Born in the Bronx, NY, Rae resides in Southington, CT. She studied at the former Art School of Fashion and Design, Hartford, CT; Fine Arts at Central Connecticut State University, New Britain, CT; Paier Art School, Hamden, CT; and privately with Sr. Mary Magdeline, New Britain, CT. I feel that my early life in New York was the impetus that now influences my work, as well as Faith in my inner Spirit voice. Art education via mentoring plays a major role in my life. I believe everyone is “creative.” If they took the time to discover availabilities and a choice of methods to express themselves, a new and exciting world would open up for them. I work in a improvisational and interpretive style using many media. Unaware at first in which direction the Spirit is leading me, I allow time and space to pass until a connection is made that results in visual art. In much of my work, I like to leave out a small amount so that you, the viewer, can visually fill in areas by using your own imagination... In this way, you become a part of, and are able to share an art experience…a creative process with me. An art mentor for children and adults
from throughout the Central Connecticut area, Rae has conducted
workshops on “Art for Children” at a symposium for Lutheran
Teachers from Connecticut and on “Creative Arts” at the
St. Paul’s High School, Bristol, CT. She has been a juror for
many art shows and an invited guest panelist and speaker for Congresswoman
Nancy Johnson’s Small Business Seminar, held at the Briarwood
College, Southington, CT. She is an independent coordinator and
promoter of visual art shows and is a member of several art associations.
Presently, Rae is an Art Director for Media
& Company, ARTS4U, representing and promoting artists internationally.
The Immigrant Collection Exhibited in the Museum of Immigration, at the Statue of Liberty, is a portraiture series of early 1900 Ellis Island Immigrants who settled in Connecticut. Nationalities represented were Greece, Ukraine, Italy, Poland, Germany, Lithuania, Sweden, Austro-Hungry, Assyria, and Armenia. Their simplistic renderings symbolize the pride of our ancestry, our family heritage, seeds of tradition and customs, and most of all, the bond that keeps us all together. Rae creates ancestry portraiture from family photographs. She carefully studies their distinctive personalities and traits, mainly observed in the eyes. The interpretation of the photograph is a major stimulator for the artist in creating the final drawing. Each drawing is 30” x 40” rendered in vine charcoal on linen illustration board and framed in wood. Commissions are welcome. |
