Aurora Robson's Page

Website

http://www.aurorarobson.com

Relationship status

married

College / University

Columbia University

Program

visual art & art history

Member type

Artist

If you're an artist, what kind of art do you make?

Drawing, Installation, Painting, Sculpture

I am...

happy to be alive at the moment.

About my artwork

I make paintings, sculpture, works on paper, junk mail collage and installation. I just finished a 63' sculpture for a big bank made from 9000 plastic bottles culled from their own recycling bins. I got to hire a bunch of other artists to help with it because it was very labor intensive and I thought it would be nice. I am now working on another large scale plastic bottle sculpture for the Rice Gallery in Texas. I think the large scale really works when you are dealing with plastic bottles as it talks about sustainability and sustains many more artists than just myself economically. Plus, actually rescuing these plastic bottles from going into landfill is a plus. Plus writing sentences that begin and end with 'plus' is a plus. A drop in the bucket... but the bucket could get full of drops & then we could dump the whole bucket on someone's head and have a jolly good laugh. Or not.

Artists I like

Matthew Barney, Lee Bontecou, Louise Bourgeois, Daniel Zeller, Angelo Filomeno, Emilio Perez, Petah Coyne, Andrea Zittel, Yuken Teruya, Lisa Solomon, Julie Mehretu, Tara Donovan, Tim Hawkinson, Heide Trepanier, Inga Huld Tryggvadottir, Ernesto Neto, Thomas Demand, Judy Pfaff, E.V. Day, Fred Tomaselli, Tom Friedman, Venske & Spanle, William Steiger, Tomas Vu, Margie Livingston, Roxy Paine, Andy Goldsworthy, Matthew Ritchie, Ryan McGinness, Amy Myers, Hiroshi Sugimoto, Amy Cutler, Olafur Eliasson, Eliza Fernand, Jieun Zaun Lee, Chris Jordan, Richard Serra, Anish Kapoor, Tony Oursler, Ursula von Rydingsvard, Hedda Sterne, Jane South, Alessandra Sanguinetti, Bjorn Dahlem, Andreas Kocks, Yayoi Kusama, and many many many more....

Interests

I am interested in transformation, sustainability, physics, gravity, geometry, fractals, biology, energy, momentum, inertia, morphology, alchemy, fear and overcoming fear, yoga, patterns that repeat in nature at every scale, fractals, string theory, social bodies, colonies, deep sea creatures, microorganisms, viruses, memory, and many other things and non-things.

What exhibitions are good at the moment?

All of them. Art stuck in a studio is sad art indeed.

Centre of the artworld:

nowhere and everywhere