Robin Tewes "Day Night"

Robin Tewes "Day Night" 2024

Acrylic on Board
Dimensions: 16" x 17 1/2" each 16" x 25"
Unique
Signed on Verso, includes certificate of authenticity.

Celebrated artist Robin Tewes was born in Queens New York in 1950. She received her BFA from Hunter College in 1978 and her MST from Pace University in 2012. She is the Recipient of many notable and prestigious awards, including the 2008 Pollock-Krasner Foundation Painting Award, the 2007 Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Award, and the 2004 and 1989 New York Foundation for the Arts-Painting. Selected solo exhibitions include Wright Gallery, Adam Baumgold Gallery, Headbones Gallery, Klapper Hall Gallery, Bill Maynes Gallery, John Weber Gallery. Some group exhibitions include: at P.S. 1, P.S. 122 Painting Association, The Drawing Center, Aldridge Museum, Whitney Museum, Museum of Modern Art, Hunterdon Museum. Tewes is interested in how much a single narrative moment can tell us about ourselves. Became a founding member of P.S122 Painting Association and now on the Board of Directors. She has been included recently in the Smithsonian Archives of American Art. Her work has been recognized and written about in NY Times, Village Voice, The Drawing Society, Soho News, Artforum, Artiness, Art in America, Tema Celeste, and Arts to name a few. 

“I'm interested in how much a single narrative moment can tell us about ourselves. At first glance my work appears ordinary but nothing is really what it seems.The backgrounds of some of my work are covered with images and words that are scratched into the walls of the rooms. It can have a contradictory quality, yet is integrated into the space as it is into human consciousness.Most paintings are purposely intimate in scale or detailed so that the viewer is drawn in for a closer look. Then the narrative or content can change because of the written words on the walls or other images that are not immediately visible. Repeated images such as brick, plants, crumpled paper, windows and sky, reflect the surreal subtleties that lurk in the mundane and peripheral experience of contemporary life.

My work is involved with expressing paradoxical truths and the short stories have psychological theory. The characters for the most part are people that I know.Class and gender issues, especially in the art world, is an under explored topic. My life’s work has been involved with this investigation and other social political concerns. I want my paintings to be accessible and the personal reference to be a universal experience.” - Robin Tewes

Learn more about her artwork and exhibitions on our website.