Aminah Robinson
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Born | Aminah Brenda Lynn Robinson February 18, 1940 |
Died | May 22, 2015 Columbus, Ohio | (aged 75)
Nationality | American |
Alma mater | Columbus College of Art and Design |
Awards | MacArthur Fellows Program |
Aminah Brenda Lynn Robinson (February 18, 1940 – May 22, 2015) was an American artist.[1]
Life
Robinson was born in 1940 and raised in Columbus, Ohio, within the close-knit community of Poindexter Village, one of the country’s first federally funded metropolitan housing developments.[2] Robinson received her formal art training at the Columbus Art School (now the Columbus College of Art and Design). She continued to live and work in Columbus. She graduated from the Columbus Art School cum laude in 1960, studying at Ohio State University, Franklin University, and Bliss College.[3] Her diverse body of work ranges from drawings and woodcuts to complex sculptures made from natural and synthetic materials, such as twigs, carved leather, music boxes, and “hogmawg,” her own material composed of mud, grease, dyes, and glue. [4]
She has shown at the Columbus Museum of Art,[5][6] the Tacoma Art Museum,[7] and the Brooklyn Museum.[8] She died on May 22, 2015 of heart problems.[9]
Awards
References
- ^ http://fisher.osu.edu/art/robinson/robinson.htm
- ^ http://www.hammondharkins.com/artists/aminah-robinson/
- ^ http://biography.jrank.org/pages/2534/Robinson-Aminah.html
- ^ http://www.hammondharkins.com/artists/aminah-robinson/
- ^ http://www.columbusmuseum.org/exhibitions/aminah/aminah_popup.html
- ^ "Interview with Aminah Robinson", The Columbus Dispatch, Bill Mayr
- ^ http://www.tacomaartmuseum.org/page.aspx?hid=748
- ^ http://www.brooklynmuseum.org/exhibitions/symphonic_poem/
- ^ http://www.toledonewsnow.com/story/29150112/ohio-artist-known-for-mixed-media-storytelling-work-dies
External links
- Artist's website
- Aminah Brenda Lynn Robinson (1940 - ), Ask Art
- Aminah Robinson (American, 1940), Artnet
- Mimi Brodsky Chenfield, "Aminah Robinson: One Artist’s Ties to Folklife and Folk Art", The Clarion, Summer 1989.