Gina Lee Robbins

Strange Magic

Media: prefabricated wooden shrine, found leather glove, plastic bags, fabric, porcelain, cotton mesh, deer hair, latex and acrylic paint, glue, screws.

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Artist’s Statement on Strange Magic, A Shrine for Cabinet of Curiosity’s Path of Resilience:

Strange Magic is my musing on the resilience of nature, and the magic of the feminine divine, despite every patriarchal meddling. The gift of our mothers… that of creation, regeneration and nurturing is a most disruptive and bewitching act. It is an act of faith, and an act of bravery.

About Gina Lee Robbins

Gina Lee Robbins is a Chicago-based interdisciplinary and teaching artist. She’s been working in clay for 30 years, and picking up artifacts along waterways, wooded paths, city alleys and thrift shops for as long as she can remember. She has exhibited or curated solo, invitational and juried group shows and competitions nationwide, in locales such as: the Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art, Masur Museum of Art, Harold Washington Library, Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition, Rockford Museum of Art and several university galleries and museums, including Northern Illinois University and University of Wisconsin.

Gina is a teaching artist at Wellness House, a cancer support center, and at Chicago Arts Partnership in Education (CAPE), where she has been partnering with Chicago Public School teachers on arts integration projects for six years.

Her sculptures are part of private and corporate collections worldwide.

An updated portfolio of works, and list of exhibitions and upcoming events can be found at https://www.ginaleerobbins.com/.

Follow Gina on Instagram at @ginaleerobbins