Biography

Robert Brinker is an emerging artist who has shown nationally and internationally, including exhibitions at PS 1 in New York, Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver and the Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing. His latest body of work, entitled “Redrawn and Quartered”, consists of large cut paper collages, drawn with thick, dark pencil lines. They are layered with other sheets of cut paper and reflective mylar that toy with space and illusion. The drawings are made by tracing lines and shapes from sources including coloring books, cartoon characters and adult comic books and weaving them into a line-work of abstraction, figures, body parts, and bows. The drawn lines refer to innocence and truth, and the loss of them. They also act as gestures that suggest a certain amount of impropriety. The title "Redrawn and Quartered" acts as a hint that these pieces are not as cute and sweet as a mermaid or a little princess. They too have a dark side and fantasies.