Stephanie Robison opens fall Art Insights lectures at SUU
By Amanda DeBry
SUU’s art department will welcome artist Stephanie Robison to present at the first Art Insights of the 2019 fall semester Sept. 5 at 7 p.m. in the SUU Auditorium. This event is free and open to the public.
Robison’s sculptures play with multiple oppositional relationships and often use humor or the absurd to address uncontrollable aspects of the body, the self, the environment, and relationships.
Originally from Oregon, Robison currently resides in California teaching sculpture at the City College of San Francisco and serving as president and educational director for the California Sculptors Symposium. Robison holds a bachelor’s degree in art from Marylhurst University and a master’s degree in sculpture from the University of Oregon. Robison’s work has been exhibited in California, Vermont, Washington, New Mexico, Georgia, Florida, Virginia, Ohio, New York, Hawaii, Oregon, Alberta Canada, and South Korea.
“Stephanie Robison is an artist who chooses stone and felt and other fabrics to create installations with an eye towards contemporary concerns,” said Russell Wrankle, an associate art professor at SUU. “She will be demonstrating felting techniques to our students in order to expose them to media that might otherwise go unnoticed as a means of expression. We’re thrilled to host this wonderful artist.”
“Materials such as fabric, wood, stone, metal, foam, and plastic allow me the freedom to discover, synthesize and fuse: organic and the geometric, natural and architectural, soft with hard, the handmade and the uniform industrial,” said Robison. “The early years my grandmother and I spent together making forts out of the dining room chairs, blankets, and the old hide-a-bed have had an influence on the way I think about and respond to the world today. Through play, my grandmother inadvertently showed me that environments and objects could function in more than one way — exist as something other than what was intended. Through the manipulation of material, I strive to create environments and objects that reference more than one thing — forms that are indescribable but remain familiar.”
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