Jesse Robinson, Current Faculty
ARTIST STATEMENT
This series of works explores the "objectness" of the painting and the pictorial potential of common objects. I have fabricated wooden stretchers and stretched the canvas in such a way as to create small indentations upon which "ready-made" objects sit. The objects placed within the paintings hover between the pictorial space of the painting and "real" space of objects in our three-dimensional world. This series tries to reimagine the figure-ground relationship as not a set of fixed relationships, but as a dynamic relationship that exists in time.
Role at Crossroads? In the Middle School, I’ve taught sixth and seventh grade Studio Art. In the Upper School, I’ve taught Studio Art 1, 3, and CAS, Themes in Art History: Modernism and Beyond, Contemporary Art History: Methods and Critiques.
Teaching Philosophy? I think of the art classroom as a space where difference is valuable, and each student’s unique subjectivity is given tools and permission to make itself manifest. Teaching art history is, in part, about communicating the context within which a given work was created. Once a student understands the context, they can engage in dialogue with even the most radical of artworks.
Jesse Robinson, Current Faculty
Untitled (draped rope), 2021
Oil on canvas, rope
60" x 35" x 2"
$4,000
Jesse Robinson, Current Faculty
Untitled (marbles), 2020
Oil on canvas, marbles, marble fragment
54" x 43" x 2"
$4,000