robin adsit
Robin Adsit received her B.F.A from the San Francisco Art Institute, Her M.A. San Francisco State University, and an M.F.A. in Painting and Drawing from The Ohio State University. She was awarded an artist residency at VCA in 2023, the Jentel Foundation, an Artist in Residence at ChaNorth, the Vermont Studio Center and MASSMoCA, MA. In 2003, Robin was the recipient of a Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant for painting and drawing. Robin's paintings and drawings have appeared in numerous exhibitions at galleries and museums, most recently, Bridgette Mayer Gallery, Rema Hort Mann Foundation, Storage Gallery, The Painting Center, Collar Works, and ChaShaMa, NY.
My paintings are primarily oil and watercolor on paper and panel. I paint figures that are linked through gesture, intention, and proximity and explore human forms as archives of meaning, with a focus on body language as a signifier of power, desire, longing, impermanence and absence. These paintings draw from both the body and the environment interweaving figural representations with spatial disruptions created through the emotive, material and psychological use of color and shapes.
