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Tommie Robinson’s ‘Environmental Series’

April 2, 2015 Forum & Commentary

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April 2, 2015

Tommie Robinson March 31; detail from "Spring"
Tommie Robinson March 31; detail from “Spring”

On this and linked pages are images of the work of Charlotte artist Tommie Robinson.

The canvases are from “The Environmental Series,” works exhibited in March and April 2015 in connection with Robinson serving as the 2015 Africana Artist-in-Residence at UNC Charlotte. The accompanying photos were taken April 2, 2015 with permission of the artist while the works were on display at the Latibah Collard Green Museum, 720 Tuckaseegee Rd. The exhibit, curated by T’afo Feimster, may be viewed free during museum hours through April 15. [The Tuckaseegee location closed in June 2015.]

UNCC Africana Studies Department Chair Akin Ogundiran wrote in materials prepared for the exhibition that UNCC selected the “Art, Environment, and Race” theme “in order to explore, through the creative works of the artist, the issues of environmental sustainability in the face of unsustainable practices and policies; and the implications for social justice and bio/social diversity.”

Feimster, the exhibition’s curator, put it this way: Robinson’s vision of environmental damage operates on two planes. One is literal: dead fish, burning landscapes. On the other plane, things are out of place – sometimes grotesquely: fish living in flowers and parking lots, shadows that are actually smoke, a human form with the head of a diseased fish. This is Robinson’s world – or is it ours?

Robinson’s studio is at 2400 Distribution St., Charlotte, NC 28203. His number is 9110-220-5787. He says he doesn’t check e-mail very often.

 

The Environmental Series:    “Oil & Acrylic on Canvas”

Click on the thumbnails to view larger pictures and details.

"5th Street Tunne" by Tommie Robinson
“5th Street Tunnel”

 

"Home in an Iris" by Tommie Robinson
“Home in an Iris”

 

"Living in a Yellow Orchid" by Tommie Robinson
“Living in a Yellow Orchid”

 

"Bird of Paradise" by Tommie Robinson
“Bird of Paradise”

 

"Exiting the Parking Lot" by Tommie Robinson
“Exiting the Parking Lot”

 

"Novello" by Tommie Robinson
“Novello”

 

"Visitors" by Tommie Robinson
“Visitors”

 

"Handicapped Parking" by Tommie Robinson
“Handicapped Parking”

About the canvases below: Promotional materials for the exhibition made use of strategically placed text boxes to cover up nude female forms. Pictures used on this website take a different approach – focusing on details from those six canvases.

"Venus" by Tommie Robinson
“Venus”

 

"Mami-Wata" [Twins Three] by Tommie Robinson
“Mami-Wata” [Twins Three]

 

"Fall" by Tommie Robinson
“Fall”

 

"Spring" by Tommie Robinson
“Spring”

 

"Winter" by Tommie Robinson
“Winter”

 

"Summer" by Tommie Robinson
“Summer”

 

 

 

 

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