Opening Night for SOLO EXHIBITION: DONALD ROBSON, Associate Professor of Painting & Drawing at Kennesaw State

Part 2 of eyedrum’s Higher Education Triennial for the State of Georgia

Atlanta, Georgia, June 2023 – Opening Friday, July 14th, 2023 at eyedrum gallery, 6:00pm to 9:00pm

The exhibition will run July 14th – August 6th with an opening on July 14th 6pm to 9pm and a closing with artist talk on August 6th 2pm to 4pm.

About the Artist

Donald Robson began his career the 1980’s after studying in Pennsylvania and in Italy. He relocated to Atlanta in 1992 and has been exhibiting his paintings, drawings and mixed media constructions at various venues around the city. Donald’s work is represented in collections in Pennsylvania, Georgia, California, Rhode Island as well as Vienna, Austria and Izmit, Turkey. He also has designed and created unique work for locations throughout the country and places as far away as Aruba and the United Arab Emirates. Donald Robson is currently represented by Gibson Gallery in Los Angeles, California, and Gallery 378 of Atlanta Georgia.

Robson Artist’s Statement

The work is a rewriting and combination of familiar or forgotten narratives. Visual history, folktales, human achievements (positive and negative), and the late-late show are just the tip of the iceberg. All are fair game. The symbolic baggage of images re- combine to re-present recognized stories. It is looking at things from the other side of the page, holding it up to the light and reading it from that side. The work connects these various interpretations in order to deconstruct the accepted interpretations or to rebuild them from scratch. My work from the past few years has been a rection to the times we live in. The images may make use of history and traditional technique, but the content is reflective what we are experiencing in this point in time.

Donald Robson 2023

Heliography by Donald Robson