Robin Dintiman: Ineffable Touch
A.I.R. Gallery is pleased to announce Ineffable Touch, a solo exhibition by National Artist Robin Dintiman, featuring sculpture, printmaking, photography, video, and textiles. This is Dintiman鈥檚 first solo exhibition at A.I.R.
Using a combination of unique processes, Dintiman creates works that reflect the transience of our corporeal lives, blurring the boundaries between the physical world and the ineffable, the mortal and the spiritual.
The works on view in Ineffable Touch incorporate found objects from nature such as tree branches, as well as personal detritus such as shed hair, gloves, and buttons. Drawing from Dintiman鈥檚 own life, her body lines and wrinkles, they reflect the vulnerability the artist feels in her skin. The pieces are intended to inspire a similarly visceral response in the viewer, whose feeling about their own body and history will inevitably influence how they respond to the work. Dintiman鈥檚 works evoke an uneasy awareness of our very real fragility. But this awareness, the artist believes, might also allow for greater consciousness.
鈥淐onsistent throughout all of my work is an intimate focus on what I hold to be our most complex human syntax鈥攖hat of how and why things die, and of how we regard or treat them in this process of transition,鈥� Dintiman says. 鈥淚 intricately explore these thoughts through nature-based works that express how we experience the world through our bodies. It then connects us to the archetypal 鈥楨ros鈥欌�攖he life force felt in our bodies as we embrace the uncanny and the inexplicable.鈥�
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A.I.R. Gallery is pleased to announce Ineffable Touch, a solo exhibition by National Artist Robin Dintiman, featuring sculpture, printmaking, photography, video, and textiles. This is Dintiman鈥檚 first solo exhibition at A.I.R.
Using a combination of unique processes, Dintiman creates works that reflect the transience of our corporeal lives, blurring the boundaries between the physical world and the ineffable, the mortal and the spiritual.
The works on view in Ineffable Touch incorporate found objects from nature such as tree branches, as well as personal detritus such as shed hair, gloves, and buttons. Drawing from Dintiman鈥檚 own life, her body lines and wrinkles, they reflect the vulnerability the artist feels in her skin. The pieces are intended to inspire a similarly visceral response in the viewer, whose feeling about their own body and history will inevitably influence how they respond to the work. Dintiman鈥檚 works evoke an uneasy awareness of our very real fragility. But this awareness, the artist believes, might also allow for greater consciousness.
鈥淐onsistent throughout all of my work is an intimate focus on what I hold to be our most complex human syntax鈥攖hat of how and why things die, and of how we regard or treat them in this process of transition,鈥� Dintiman says. 鈥淚 intricately explore these thoughts through nature-based works that express how we experience the world through our bodies. It then connects us to the archetypal 鈥楨ros鈥欌�攖he life force felt in our bodies as we embrace the uncanny and the inexplicable.鈥�
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