Exhibited: H - Z: Aurora Robson

While simply enjoying the process of making paintings, in these works I was also thinking a lot about points of light and particulate matter. Part of my practice revolves around marveling at how everything can be observed on a scale that displays its smaller constituents. I like thinking about how investigating things on a microscopic scale often leads to massive discovery both in science and in life. Contemplating the particulate nature of things serves as a reminder for me that passage is always possible, despite the seemingly impassable nature of some heavy, seemingly solid things.

Aurora Robson was born in Toronto, Canada. She received a BA in Visual Art & Art History magna cum laude from Columbia University, New York in 2000. She is a certified structural welder and for many years ran her own welding studio. Robson recently completed What Goes Around Comes Around, a large-scale suspended sculpture commissioned by Merrill Lynch. An extended article about the artist was published in Art in America in the fall 2009.