Nadine Robinson- Awareness Post

https://www.smackmellon.org/artist/nadine-robinson/

She was born in 1968 in London, England, and got an MFA degree from New York University along with a BFA degree from the State University of New York at Stony Brook. Since getting her degrees she has had many solo and group exhibitions stretching across the U.S.A., and the world! Some of the solo exhibitions include White We, Caren Golden Fine Art, New York, NY, Flip Flop, Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Culver City, CA, etc. Some of the group exhibitions include Lost in Music, Johnson Community College Gallery of Art, Overland Park, KS, Submerge, Kunstbunker, Forum für Zietgenössische Kunst e.V., Nuremberg, Germany, etc.

I have noticed that a common theme throughout all of her sculptures she includes some essence of sound through actual sound or the portrayal of speakers to convey her messages that usually analyze historical struggle.

https://vmfa.museum/collections/stories/the-dirty-south/

https://www.nermanmuseum.org/exhibitions/2005-02-27-lost-in-music.html

Big Baby Blue, Version Three Coronation Theme: Organon Nadine Robinson, 2005 Nadine Robinson, 2008

Speakers, Sound System, Mixed Media, Paint (unknown type) Speakers, Sound System, Mixed media

I really love how both of these pieces add an element of sound and music to them, it really brings them alive. Not only that, but they can actually play music which I think just really adds to the piece. I love the simplicity of the presentation, but the complexity of the idea behind all of her work not just these two pieces. She highlights topics of racism, historical segregation, and her culture through her pieces and the use of speakers. In the two pieces I put above, she chose to play African American hip-hop music that embodies her culture and sounds mimicking when children and adults were attacked by the police during a peaceful protest about segregation. I think her work is very inspiring to all people around the world, and to me. I would love to include music in my work in the future that embodies me as a person and adds more life to my pieces. Her pieces of work really connect to some of the things I have learned in history about racism and segregation, and she shows how artists responded to these circumstances through music.