Colette Robbins is a hybrid digital-virtual sculptor. Her sculptures include motifs of abstracted and remixed ancient symbols, archaic smiles, architectural fragments, and detailed rocky textures. This eclectic imagery — influenced by her extensive online archive—references themes from occultism, antiquated medical practices, neuroscience, and psychology. These downloaded archives are organized into visual maps and are used as stylistic prompts for her assemblage-like approach to digital sculpting. Extrapolating from this range of ancient and contemporary sources, she builds bizarre fictitious talismans that recontextualize and reanimate archetypes. Her sculptures exist both physically as 3D prints, and as digital sculptures in virtual reality and in animations.

Colette Robbins (b. St. Louis) is a virtual and physical sculptor living and working in Queens, NY. Her sculptures exist in two worlds: the tactile realm as hand-painted 3D printed sculptures and the boundless digital expanse as animations and digital images. Her central focus is on making material forms out of dense psychological narratives. She holds a BFA from The Maryland Institute College of the Arts (MICA) and an MFA from Parsons the New School for Design. Her works have been exhibited at prominent galleries and museums worldwide, including the Francisco Carolinum Museum (Linz, Austria), 101/Exhibit (Los Angeles), Koki Fine Arts (Tokyo), and P.P.O.W. Gallery (New York City). She currently teaches 3D modeling at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, NY. Robbins’ work has been reviewed in The New Yorker Magazine, Artillery Magazine, LA Weekly, and Beautiful Decay, amongst others.

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