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Ronnie Robinson, was born and raised in New York City and is currently based in Los Angeles.
His energetic, expressive portraits are comfortably ambiguous; collapsing time and space to feel familiar yet unfamiliar. Robinson works from photographs as well as his memory to capture portraits of people who would or could have been, with an emotional intensity that is matched only by the earnestness of his brush work. Often taking a pose from a photograph, Robinson applies his own imagination to the scenario to conjure a character with the familiarity of a family member, sprinkled with a touch of peculiarity.
Robinson’s paintings themselves are immediate, loose, bold and charged. Often working with a ferocious energy, Robinson works and reworks the surfaces of his canvases multiple times before settling on a final composition. Through this subtle and nuanced use of colour, the works end up achieving a sepia warmth reminiscent of vintage photographs, only adding to the feeling that these people once existed and engaged with each other. With a back- ground in the dramatic arts, Robinson approaches paint- ing like a method actor, putting himself in his subject’s shoes to create a narrative and engage with the past, whilst firmly looking towards the future. Working on multi- ple canvases at one time, Robinson takes on different guises to explore different roles and characters within the black community, whilst still keeping the works somewhat autobriographical; an exercise for Robinson to work through and learn from just as much as the viewer.