Artist Statement 

As an artist, I am often described as poly-methodist. Stylistically, I see myself as an outsider artist with the spirit of a degenerate artist.

The work I’m fleshing out on canvas is shaped by my experience growing up in the 90s, influenced by ever-evolving, drug-like technologies that were themselves a new reality while simultaneously making actual reality feel somehow unreal. At the same time, my work is rooted in the multicultural world view my parents– both world travelers and educators–immersed me in as a child.

In this pursuit, I follow multiple paths at once, remaining free to discover rather than be bound by branding or commercial concerns—though I welcome moments of convergence when they arise. I use the phone a lot in finding source material and will employ anything from AI to a pencil sketch to aid in the process of arriving at a final image.

Right now, I am obsessed with America and the effectiveness of the lie. I’ve been doing paintings about that, and I’ve turned the idiom “Don’t upset the apple cart” into a symbol for the avant-garde that I’m exploring in a long series of paintings called Apple Carts. I’m also doing a series of flag paintings, peppering in the occasional portrait or one-off.

I speak in the small isms, avoid the decadent in favor of the primitive, and dwell in the oscillation between absolutes. Each painting is a poem, a celebration of the Übermensch, and a gestalt of my experience as an American.

Colin H. Robinson

September 25, 2025