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Eyelevel Focus features a selection of works from one of our artists. Our featured artist to launch this online exhibition is Andrew Cornell Robinson.

Robinson’s work includes ceramic, collage and printed work on paper. Rooted in the history of craftsmanship and abstraction, his playful work points toward an abstraction of narratives such as folklore and forgotten histories. From ceramic vessels and objects to brightly colored prints, Robinson’s work has a poetic, humorous and at times cryptic sensibility that is always engaging.

Explore some of his ceramic work and a new limited edition series of prints available for purchase online or from our showroom in North Williamsburg, Brooklyn.

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FOCUS / ANDREW CORNELL ROBINSON

_{The Four Humiliations, 2009
Ceramic, enamel, 18 x 42 x 14″}

Andrew Cornell Robinson
Born Camden, New Jersey, 1968

“I was apprenticed to a potter from the age of ten to eighteen and then studied sculpture at the Maryland Institute College of Art. In 1990 I studied ceramic sculpture with Dave Cohen at the Glasgow School of Art in Scotland. I received a MFA in studio art from the School of Visual Arts in 1994 and have been working in Brooklyn.

My work incorporates assemblage compositions which include a variety of materials. I’m interested in secret histories, folklore, incantations and anachronisms all of which inform the creation of peculiar relics that elude to a narrative. These queer things don’t yield easily to comprehension and happily they offer an opening into the mystery of an unfinished story. I like that, its like poetry, it hangs in air.
In the most recent work, I am creating paintings, limited edition prints and objects that explore the secret lives of individuals. The titles, layered images, objects and material coalesce in emotional markers that facilitate a mnemonic connection between the viewer and the object, all the while enticing the viewer to fill in the gaps of the story.

I consider myself to be a constant explorer of narrative and material. My journey has often revolved around ceramics, starting with a ten year boyhood apprenticeship with an English potter and later studying ceramics at Maryland Institute, Glasgow School of Art and painting at the School of Visual Arts. My work points toward an abstraction of narratives such as folklore and forgotten history and results in uncommon objects, cobbled together from multiple media often each material is chosen for some symbolic reference as well as its tactile qualities. In each work I begin with a patchwork of elements that may include paint, text, fabric, embroidery, twine, clay, rubber, etc. The surface is layered with images and material to build a new narrative construction from the juxtaposition and history of the elements.
Much like the tradition of material craftsmanship which I was schooled in, the process and material texture inform the objects that then informs the feeling of the work, sometimes poetic, humorous, jarring and at times cryptic.”

CURRENT EXHIBIT SELECTION

_{Dr.Morbito
“Honesto Power”
(Epoxy plasticine piece that goes on top of a wooden pedestal base.
In this scene we can se San Honesto battling against bribery).}

HONESTY

Contemporary Mexican visual arts has been fixated with notions of violence and corruption for some time now. It is with welcome relief and great excitement that EyeLevel BQE presents, “H O N E S T Y”. Centrally curated by Ana Elena Mallet around the fictional saint “San Honesto” created by Factoria de Santos, this show is a retort against the universal corruption that fundamentally frames life in modern day Mexico.“H O N E S T Y” Features art by Mexican artists: Vena2, Ciler, Bang Buro, Dr. Morbito, Monica Ruzansky, Gabriela Alva Cal y Mayor and Luisa Gloria Mota-Velasco. To create a new yet authentically Mexican visual culture focused on honesty all artists applied the spirit of the mirror faced saint to their respective mediums, resulting in a fascinating range of 2D and 3D work reaching for a more pure sense of self. In response to the Saint’s activity in New York City, Artist and Director of Eyelevel BQE decided to invite 3 New York-based artists; Tomas Tisch, Tom Smith and Dan Funderburgh, who in the past months have been reacting with big interest to San Honesto’s Branding and witty design.


<sub>Artist’s Ciler Limited Edition Signed Handkerchiefs



This work is created in order to transcend the art status and become part of this phenomenon.
The artist intention was to create a piece that could be inserted in the everyday life and its corruption: an intervention to the 100 pesos bill was made, so it reflects the value of honesty over money and it has the power to communicate it to the corrupts that receive it.</sub>

Honesty Bills are a limited edition and signed at the top of the stack.