Robin Crofut-Brittingham Robin is a guest artist, exhibiting her works as part of the gallery's 2024 summer collection.
Robin Crofut-Brittingham received her BA from Bard College in Annandale-On-Hudson, New York with a focus in Poetry and Art History. She completed her MFA at the San Francisco Art Institute. She was the recipient of the Murphy Cadogan Award from the San Francisco Foundation and a Martha Boschen Porter Award through the Berkshire Taconic Foundation. Her work has been featured in Novella, Frankie, My Modern Met, Hi Fructose and on Booooooom, and has been exhibited in solo and group exhibitions throughout the US and Canada. She currently lives and works in Montreal, Canada.
Artistic Approach Drawing inspiration from mythology, science fiction, folklore and personal history, Robin's most recent work grows from her continued fascination with the ways in which humans interact with the natural world. In this contemporary moment when we seem constantly on the precipice of some unknown future, Robin uses her paintings to reflect on what it is like to be human at this time by creating her own imaginary world. In much of classical mythology and folklore nighttime is a moment for transformation and change when rituals are performed, boundaries are transgressed and transfigurations are completed. Robin is inspired by these moments of change and by the idea of things being disrupted and transformed by nature and their environment. Robin made these newest works with no premeditated narrative but rather built the images from many sources of inspiration to try to find her own stories and worlds within these combined visual elements.
Selection of works *Works on view courtesy of Tian Contemporary
