Artist Registry
The White Columns Curated Artist Registry is an online platform for emerging and under-recognized artists to share images and information about their respective practices. The Registry seeks to create a context for artists who have yet to benefit from wider critical, curatorial or commercial support. To be eligible, artists cannot be affiliated with a commercial gallery in New York City.
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STATEMENT OF WORK
Andrew Robinson’s work resists the austerity of pure formalism, embracing contradiction, instability, and the entangled nature of memory. His paintings, assemblages, and ceramic works exist in a state of flux, where history and fantasy, erasure and revelation, fracture and coalesce in uneasy dialogue. Figures emerge only to be obscured, their presence spectral yet insistent, dissolving into abstraction or buried beneath layers of material intervention. This slippage—between the desire to see and the impossibility of a fixed image—mirrors the experience of otherness, the queer and peculiar dancing across shifting grounds.
Robinson’s work refuses the sterile finality of minimalism in favor of something messier, more human—an embodiment of doubt and transformation. His compositions are sites of disruption, where fragments of personal and collective histories collide, generating new meanings through their very instability. It is not about resolution but about the charged space between knowing and unknowing, the tension of an image that is both present and slipping away.