Printmaker Robbin Juris
studied surface and textile design at Fashion Institute
of Technology and ceramics at Chelsea Ceramics Guild,
after attending graduate school in English literature at
Columbia University. She began showing her artwork at the
age of 17, having been selected to participate in a group
exhibition at Lever House in New York City. She has had a
solo show of raku-fired ceramic vessels at the Chelsea
Ceramics Guild Gallery and a solo show of prints at the
Treetops Chamber Music Society. In addition to her work
as an artist, Robbin has had a multifaceted career as a
magazine editor, including managing the news section of
PC Magazine. Here she developed a strong interest in
using computers as a medium for printmaking.
Robbin has been working on two large series of
prints—Aspects of Infinity and
Transformations/Turbulence—both of which reflect her
focus on exploring the complex patterns and dynamic
processes of the natural world. In her color prints,
Robbin uses fractal geometry and its infinitely recursive
properties as a starting point for abstraction. These
color prints are unified by their use of shapes that
preserve their detailed structure in all scales. Thus,
what viewers see on the surface of a print is also what
they might see if they could zoom into a print in real
time. In her black-and-white work, Robbin examines the
transformative effects of forces such as wave patterns on
universal forms. Themes that recur in Robbin’s work
include the seemingly paradoxical interdependence of
chaos and order and the mysterious relationships among
forms in nature.
Originally from New York City, Robbin lives in Stamford,
Connecticut, with her husband and their two sons.
For more information, please visit www.robbinjuris.com |
