2024-2030
This My Dog
2020-2024
HARD–BODY
Duck, Duck
A Death Before Dishonor
2016-2020
Pantone®
Don’t Bother Me I’m a Work-In-Progress
Auditory
It’s Okay You Threw Me Away
2012-2016
Oh a Mistake!
Connecting the Dots.
2008-2012
Piecing-Things-Together
THIS MY DOG
MAY 2025 / MONTERAY BAY / PHOTOGRPAHYWe were on a caffeinated birthday weekend mission to visit the Aquarium to explore the playground of the Giant Squid, my best friend's favorite animal (apparently, squids aren't badass enough to be in the sea prison). My memory, unpredictable as ever, dropped a surprise: Monterey includes Big Sur. Not the MacOS, the real place. Thanks to its natural hot springs, I’ve been itching to explore its wild, coastal mountain pass. Esalen turned them into a luxury retreat. It’s overpriced. I’ll still go. We explored the city. We ran 16 miles along the coast. We wandered organic grocery aisles, drawing racially curious stares. Then we detoured to a spontaneous land prison and got roared at by a domesticated lion.
That’s when it hit me, this trip was a pause. A chance to slow down and feel the peach-soft presence around us.I watched them balance on the edge of the stained sofa in our Airbnb, finally warm. Light slid across their joy. Laughter bounced between my heart and my head. It reminded me why I live like this.
Why I tell these stories...The beach is beautiful and dangerous. Each crashing wave strips us of our weight. Deadlines, disappointments, obligations, and now algorithms. Gone. For a moment, we’re just beings again.Breathless, humbled. In awe of how wide the world becomes when we let the current settle.
The ocean’s bells are ringing now.
DUCK, DUCK
AUGUST 2020 / SWITZERLAND / OIL PAINTINGPolice are not legally obligated to serve and protect, but to enforce the law. The holocaust was the law, hiding Jews was not. The law is a basis for power - WHITE SUPREMACY, CAPITALISM, OPPRESSION, RACISM, PATRIARCHY, BANG, BANG, BANG! Being a good person does not overrule the choice to enforce oppression...there is no "good cop". Remember the chicken, mind your neck when reading the truth...duck, duck, goose.
A DEATH BEFORE DISHONOR
AUGUST 2020 / VIRTUAL / EXHIBITIONBefore entering the exhibition please close your eyes and think of your favorite memory of Big Droop and take that with you wherever you go. We love you dad! Go hard on mf mafia cuz! Thank you everyone who have continued to show love and support, we could have not done this without you! A special shoutout to Mahaneela, Rambo, Eliane, Cherry, June, Joi, CL, Keisha and Uncle Mike, Uncle Gee, Ice Mike, JP Murals, Jean Dawson, Nico Hernandez, and Chef X!
DON’T BOTHER ME I’M A WORK IN PROGRESS
JANUARY 2019 / LOS ANGELES / EXHIBITIONComing off his first solo exhibition, It’s Okay You Threw Me Away, themed around up-cycled installations, Robinson stains himself as a multidisciplinary artist with Don’t Bother Me, I’m a Work-In-Progress (W-I-P). After being released from art school during his adolescence, Robinson has continued to un-define the idea of expression. Frustrated with the structural ideologies of art in academia and the highs and lows of self-discovery, Robinson flushes these emotions through an arrangement of canvases.
AUDITORY
SEPTEMBER 2017 / LOS ANGELES / ACOUSTICSDirections: close your eyes after the act title put yourself in the setting of the sounds open your eyes after the act bell.
An aural digest stimulating an idle sense. this project is to rekindle the act of learning and enjoying via ear. society has become reliant on visual perception, that it has become facile to pollute and distort the minds of the masses. ironically this project began during a time of turmoil between the usa and former soviet union. i was advised of the horrors of a cold country, but i compared it to the mass media and yellow press’ global groundless immortal vilification of high in melanin males. this mindset ultimately gave me the vision to open my ears and enjoy pоссия.
IT’S OKAY YOU THREW ME AWAY
MARCH 2018 / LOS ANGELES / EXHIBITIONLearning and celebrating self-love, while exploring the evolution of the imbalances it brings, Robinson flushes these emotions through multiple mediums and platforms. Having bustle upbringings from Los Angeles to Baltimore, Robinson imbibed and mixed each environment to develop his own craft and ideologies. However, Robinson has lacked social engagement, which has led him to create works to engage in conversation to break his own and others’ biases and barriers to champion forwardness in a bull-headed society. Robinson’s most recent installation, Auditory, focused on the sounds of Russia and the comparison of the western world’s stereotypes on African men and the former Soviet Union.
During his study of Sustainability at Cal-State Northridge, Robinson has headlined various group shows, but It’s Okay You Threw Me Away (IOYTMA) is his first solo exhibition. Robinson has shied away from doing what he calls “art turn-ups”, were the gallery space is solely a communion of dizziness and backs towards canvases. Robinson hopes to capture the idea of rebirth in IOYTMA, whether it’s finding love again or repurposing abandoned materials to create utilitarian household items.