"...It is heartening to see an artist exploring this idiom in a way that gives viewers as much to think about as it gives them to see." Art in America, 2005

art/images

 

newest-now-next

 

bio

 

statement

 

projects

 

robin@omphalos-art.com

 


A Speculative Imaginary and Space Opera

The Land of Hooch

Positing a vividly realized alternate world to this one is, in the best Speculative Imaginaries, one of the most potent methods of calling forth possibility and change, of disrupting current "normalizing discourses;" where things that could be otherwise come to seem natural, inevitable -- or the best we can do for now -- and the contingent is rendered unalterable.

All imaginary settings need not reflect or resemble the natural world, and logic, physics and plausibility are frequently ignored or violated. All Speculative Imaginings in Land of Hooch, from artifical mythologies to virtual realities, secret histories, phantom islands, dys/utopias, multiverses, and dream worlds, come with varied and strange mark-making, unusually and impossibly mixed media, unlikely renderings, and strategically dangerous processes.

Land of Hooch: Where every single entity has a mode of sentience, thinking-as-being, and in order to survive humans must try to understand them, must communicate with that which has always been thought of as Other, and as Less.
Multiverses: Utopic Hooch (communion with all entities) and Dystopic Hooch (enslavement, emmiseration, apocalypse).

 

 

 

You know how I feel

Center for Contemporary Arts, Santa Fe October, 2008

Robin Ward in collaboration with Victor Barbieri, Eila Kovanen, Veronica Sahagun, and Michael Wong

Muñoz Waxman Gallery
Opening reception Friday, October 10, 5-7 PM


"Every work of art is the child of its time; often it is the mother of our eotions." - Wassily Kandinsky, 1912

You know how I feel is the product of several years of collaboration between five local, national, and international artists. The exhibition includes slow-motion video; photographic abstractions; soft, sensual sculptures; paintings and drawings; and still adaptations of filmic conversations. You Know How I Feel is a plea between lover and beloved, the top and the bottom, the leader and the followers. This yearning to connect at the most fundamental level aims towards something more humane, perhaps a moment of trust, a shared history: ourselves and what we think we know about each other.

The collaboration of the five artists includes a carefully co-curated group of international guest artists who are responding directly wth their own visual interpretations of "You know how I feel," further enlivening the communcative aspect of the exhibit.

You know how I feel will also feature guerrilla-style interventions in and around the Muñoz Waxman Gallery, converting it into a visually expressive testing ground of multifold emotions and meta-emotions.

Featured Guest Artists: Marcelo Balzaretti, Sarah Barsness, Laura F. Gibellini, Dorothy Goode,Keith Hale, MelanieLacy Kusters, Modesto Covarrubias, Besty Lam, Eric Reyes Lamothe, Aline Mare, Beth Mitchell, Francesca Pastine, Deborah Poe, Neli Ruzic, James Tantum, David Tomb