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Mar 20, 2023 · Avis Collins Robinson is a visual artist best known for her paintings and abstract quilts that explore America’s tensions over race, gender, oppression and history. Abstraction in visual art...
Sep 18, 2022 · Avis uses color, rhythm, and motion in surprising and revelatory ways to create striking abstract and figurative images with cloth, thread, and pigment. She erases the lines between painting and quilting ultimately synthesizing the two into a technique and an aesthetic that are hers alone.
Mar 25, 2013 · She painted in high school and took up quilting in her 20s, working for a time with Alabama’s Gee’s Bend Quilters, a generations-old collective of African American women whose bold, artistic quilts are world famous. In 2009, her friend Preston Sampson, an artist based in Silver Spring, Md., began work on a series of Barack Obama portraits.
Dec 21, 2023 · Avis Collins Robinson was a visual artist best known for her paintings and abstract quilts that explored race, gender, oppression and conflict in American history.
Nov 4, 2023 · The artist, environmentalist, collector and advocate Avis Collins Robinson passed away on Saturday, October 28, 2023. She is survived by her husband of 45 years, Eugene Robinson; her sons,...
- October 28, 2023
Avis Collins Robinson is a visual artist best known for her paintings and abstract quilts that explore America’s deep-seated, often unacknowledged tensions over race, gender, oppression and history.
Mar 21, 2023 · She discusses how her lived experience shapes her visual art, including her quilt called “Spring” which depicts the reawakening of nature during the season, but also acknowledges the pain and injustice that springtime has brought to Black communities in Washington D.C. throughout history.
