WILL ROBINSON | TIME TRAVELER

Will Robinson conveys an effortless elegance within his large-scale stone sculptures. Stones balance impossibly atop one another, emphasizing contrast between polished and raw stone. Each piece highlights the natural properties of the stones themselves. Robinson's sculptures capture a myriad of subtleties, referencing recognizable shapes like undulations of ship sails in the wind, flukes of a whale, or the outline of a bird's wing in motion.

Robinson studied History at the University of Washington. His artwork was selected for numerous public art collections and site-specific sculpture commissions such as the St. Michael Medical Center, Silverdale, WA; Swedish Medical Center, Issaquah, WA; the Las Vegas Cleveland Clinic designed by Frank Gehry, Las Vegas, NV; and the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard Memorial Plaza, Bremerton, WA. His work is part of corporate and private collections across North America.

Given my name, Lost in Space is an easy, funny connection, a shared cultural memory with those around and in my age group. In my mind, I have always converted Lost in Space to Lost in Place, a more personal credo referring to how I felt my place in the world for many of my years.

Yet throughout the decades of being an artist, I arrived at a different way of thinking and feeling about who I am. These days, with the benefit of my artist’s journey, I no longer feel lost in space or place. Rather, I found peace in where and who I am as a maker of art. The joy of creating is such a privilege, and I feel invigorated to be able to pursue and culminate my visions freely. For me, there’s nothing more fun than making cool stuff, if I can distill down my raison d'être.

This group of works are a mix of various sparks that intrigue me. There are some animal abstractions, such as my Darkling Hawks, some sea forms, as in Deep Sea Denizen II and Abyssal Eel, and human forms, like Corsair and Slinky Black Dress. I see and draw from inspirations all around us and am joyfully compelled to bring my ideas out from within the stones I collect along the way.

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2020 Film Feature

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2018 Exhibition CatalogWind, Water, and Stone

2017 Exhibition CatalogContinuum

2016 Exhibition CatalogFoundation

2015 Exhibition CatalogFlights of Fancy

2014 Exhibition CatalogResonance

2013 Exhibition Catalog Collaborations of Man and Nature