Overflow
Slemmons Gallery
May 12, 2023 to June 24, 2023
In Overflow, Gina Lee Robbins combines found and reclaimed materials to explore the elements of human experience that we can’t quite contain. Natural debris and spillover from the urban landscape reference our inability to maintain a firm grasp on all that we’d hoped to bear. This might include the perennial lost sock, a wardrobe malfunction, or grief bubbling up at a traffic light. On a deeper level, Lee Robbins is musing on who we are in relation to who we dreamed we’d become, who we present ourselves to be, and how we’re actually seen. Her focus is the confluence of propriety and social norms with the actual spillage that occurs in everyday life–the bits that dribble out and make us uncomfortable.
Overflow
Slemmons Gallery
May 12, 2023 to June 24, 2023
In Overflow, Gina Lee Robbins combines found and reclaimed materials to explore the elements of human experience that we can’t quite contain. Natural debris and spillover from the urban landscape reference our inability to maintain a firm grasp on all that we’d hoped to bear. This might include the perennial lost sock, a wardrobe malfunction, or grief bubbling up at a traffic light. On a deeper level, Lee Robbins is musing on who we are in relation to who we dreamed we’d become, who we present ourselves to be, and how we’re actually seen. Her focus is the confluence of propriety and social norms with the actual spillage that occurs in everyday life–the bits that dribble out and make us uncomfortable.
Gina Lee Robbins is an Indianapolis-based visual and teaching artist. She’s been working in clay for 30 years, and picking up artifacts along waterways, wooded paths, city alleys and thrift shops for as long as she can remember. She holds degrees in English and French literature and is a teaching artist at Indianapolis Art Center, and Arts for Learning, Indiana. She has exhibited or curated in locales such as: the Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art, Koehnline Museum of Art, Masur Museum of Art, Freeport Art Museum, Harold Washington Library, Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition, Oliva Gallery, Bradley University Galleries, Jack Olson Gallery at Northern Illinois University, Rockford Museum of Art, St. Xavier University Gallery, University of Wisconsin Union South Gallery, and SOFA Chicago, among others. She is an active artist member of Woman Made Gallery, National Women’s Caucus for the Arts,
Chicago Sculpture International, and Mid-South Sculpture Alliance. Her sculptures can be found in private and corporate collections worldwide. Info on exhibitions, awards and events can be found at https://www.ginaleerobbins.com/.
Gina Lee Robbins is an Indianapolis-based visual and teaching artist. She’s been working in clay for 30 years, and picking up artifacts along waterways, wooded paths, city alleys and thrift shops for as long as she can remember. She holds degrees in English and French literature and is a teaching artist at Indianapolis Art Center, and Arts for Learning, Indiana. She has exhibited or curated in locales such as: the Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art, Koehnline Museum of Art, Masur Museum of Art, Freeport Art Museum, Harold Washington Library, Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition, Oliva Gallery, Bradley University Galleries, Jack Olson Gallery at Northern Illinois University, Rockford Museum of Art, St. Xavier University Gallery, University of Wisconsin Union South Gallery, and SOFA Chicago, among others. She is an active artist member of Woman Made Gallery, National Women’s Caucus for the Arts,
Chicago Sculpture International, and Mid-South Sculpture Alliance. Her sculptures can be found in private and corporate collections worldwide. Info on exhibitions, awards and events can be found at https://www.ginaleerobbins.com/.
