Different Dimension
The 2nd Novosibirsk International Festival of Contemporary Photography
June 6-July 20, 2008 Read more

Taking form in many media, my work is usually metaphoric, whether photography, computer imagery, prints or paintings. Influenced by nature, especially the powers of plants and humankind’s relationship with the botanical kingdom, the works may be very abstract or very realistic.

Formal concerns include a preoccupation with shape as a carrier of meaning, color and texture are also important elelments used for communicative force. The choice of particular surfaces, papers and pigments, the interplay of text and image, and the placement of elements for tension or harmony - all are important considerations.

As an artist, I believe that life means ongoing transition. For this reason, process is a basic underlying factor in my work. Increasingly, the new technologies have become important for the artist of today. My photography has become strictly digital, and the seduction of the computer has led me to the use of digital letterpress as well. However, this has only served to spark my interest in the historical processes of text and image printing.

Traditional letterpresses, lead type and the woodcut and wood engraving are passionate interests for me. The intellectual satisfaction of the digital processes is balanced with the hands-on physicality of the traditional. Each is sensual in its own way. Book Arts then takes its place in the current developments of work in my studio.

Like anything else organic, my work is constantly becoming.
 

The goal of the artist is to make a statement. Whether the statement is about life, nature, society, emotions, conditions, or events, is often of consequence only to the artist at that instant of time. Not every statement need be made of elements that produce a booming crescendo or controversy. Sometimes the artist simply says, "I saw this thing, this place, or this moment; and I saw it in this way. I want to show it to you." Thus, the statement can at times be nothing more than a quiet affirmation. Read more

At the American University of Paris, Combes Gallery

On September 29, 2005, Robbie’s exhibition of Etchings, Photographs and Book Arts opened at an evening reception. Read more