Artist Statement 

As an artist, I am often described as poly-styled. 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.

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. 

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, 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