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Robin Street-Morris, originally from St. Joseph, Michigan, is a working artist living in St. Louis. She graduated cum laude from the University of Michigan School of Art & Design in 2000 with a BFA in drawing, painting and photography. Robin's personal and commissioned works can be found in private collections worldwide and images of her art have been used for diverse purposes by various organizations, including the Government of Canada, the National Institutes of Health, and the Michigan Nature Association.
Statement: Creating art was my primary interest throughout childhood and it has since become my profession. Nearly all of my work is nature-inspired. Sometimes I am compelled to show recognizable forms, other times I focus only on a pattern, color combination or phenomenon that lends itself well to either organic or geometric abstraction. I am also inspired by the fairy tales and myths woven by various cultures to explain nature’s mysteries. My goal is to produce works that will hold one’s attention—works that can be contemplated repeatedly and that invite viewers to meditate on something as simple as a bit of luminous color or a graceful line. I prefer to work small because doing so is conducive to my aim of creating an intimate viewing experience. While I have worked in a wide range of
media, I
always come back to watercolor, pastel and colored pencil, often
combining
two or all three of the latter in order to create a layered look that
is
at once saturated and translucent. In the
case of my nature spirit series, the carving and lifting of paper
results in
lines that take on watercolor pigments heavily and shift once powdered
pastel
has been applied and blended, resulting in works evocative of something
one might hope to catch a glimpse of.
Upcoming: Mid-America Orchid Congress Fall 2008 and Greater Cincinnati and Miami Valley Orchid Societies' Fall Show at Kings Island Convention Center, Mason, OH, September 5th, 6th and 7th, 2008. "Connecting 2008: The U-M Art & Design Alumni Show" at the Slusser and Work galleries in Ann Arbor, Michigan from July 16th-August 8th, 2008, Illinois
Orchid
Society Spring Show, Chicago
Botanic Gardens, April 5th-6th, 2008, Best in Class, the "9th Annual Abstraction Juried Online International Exhibition", Juror Larry Bradshaw, Curator, Professor of Art, which opened on October 1st, 2007 at UptreamPeopleGallery.com, "Reconnecting:
The U-M Art & Design Alumni Show" at the Slusser and Work galleries
in Ann Arbor, Michigan from July
13th-August 10th, 2007, Mid-America Orchid Congress Spring 2007 and Illinois Orchid
Society
Spring Show, Chicago
Botanic Gardens, April 27th-29th, 2007, Best in Class, "3rd Annual- PaperWork In, On, and of Paper", a group exhibition at Foundry Art Centre in St. Charles, Missouri from January 12th-February 23rd, 2007, "Watermark 2006", a group exhibition of works on paper at Studio 107 in Whiteville, North Carolina, from February 6th to March 3rd, 2006, the "7th Annual Abstraction Juried Online International Exhibition" which opened on October 1st, 2005 at UptreamPeopleGallery.com, a group show, "ThirdStone's Greatest Hits" at ThirdStone Gallery in Saugatuck, Michigan from mid-June to mid-July, 2005, a one person show at Pentamere Winery in Tecumseh, Michigan (just outside of Ann Arbor) from May 14th to June 14th, 2004, a group show, "Efflorescence", at the John Michael Kohler Arts Center in Sheboygan, Wisconsin from May 3rd to July 28th, 2003, a traveling group show, "2002 Artists
Among Us",
sponsored by the Wayne County Council for Arts, History and Humanities
" at the Ford Community & Performing Arts Center in Dearborn,
Madonna
University Gallery in Livonia, National Conference of Artists Gallery
in
Detroit and the Grosse Pointe Artists Association Gallery in Grosse
Pointe,
Michigan, a one person show at Animalia Gallery in
Ann Arbor from
November
to December of 2001, a one person show through the Ann Arbor
Art
Center's
Off Site Program at Espresso Royal Café in June-August of 2000, a group show at the Media Union Gallery
in Ann Arbor (arranged by
Pulitzer
Prize-winning photographer Taro Yamasaki) called "Contact: Connections,
18 Photographers" in January of 2000, a group show of six artists' works at the Media Union Gallery , also at Taro's invitation, in July of 2000, and a three person show featuring thirty
of my
paintings and drawings at West Front Street Gallery in Monroe, Michigan
in June of 1999. contact / buy art home / galleries links email the artist: robin@streetmorrisart.com © Copyright 2008
Robin Street-Morris.
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