CONSTRUCTURE
Barbara Robertson
Feb 7th – March 2nd, 2019
FEATURED WORK FROM EXHIBITION
Biography     CV     Statement
Barbara Robertson works across the fissure between analog and digital realms uniting centuries-old elemental materials like Japanese Kozo paper with video, sound, and installation. Using digital imagery sourced from commonplace materials like wood, concrete, and stone in combination with painting, collage, animation and sound, her work explores how we respond to and experience the ever-changing built environment.
Barbara Robertson is especially fascinated by the rapid growth and visual change in the city of Seattle, and the proliferation of oppressive building projects that have no relationship to their site. While the work is not a direct critique of that phenomenon, it is prompted by thoughts about living in an architectural environment based on efficiency instead of aesthetics or concerns with what makes a city desirable.
Robertson is inspired by the early abstract artists including Kandinsky and Lazlo Maholy Nagy.
She also seeks inspiration from contemporary artists El Anatsui, Julie Mehretu, Kerry James Marshall, Mark Bradford, Tado Ando, and Team Lab.
Barbara Robertson was born and raised in the Ozarks of Southern Missouri. She received her MFA in from University of Washington
