Callen McJunkin Gallery

Opening reception - Friday, September 5th 2008, from 5:30 to 7:30 PM at Callen McJunkin Gallery, located in the Loft at 219 Hale Street above The Stray Dog Antiques. The six new large scale works on paper Robin McClintock has created for her first solo exhibition at the Callen McJunkin Gallery are humble, graceful and contemplative. Robin draws from a host of skills and influences to craft abstracted imagery that is accessible as it is refined. A native of New York, Robin received a BFA from The State University of New York College at Purchase in 1981. She has worked as a professional printmaker and general contractor and in 1998, she transplanted from her Lower Manhattan loft, to a farm within the Monongahela National Forest in rural Tucker County, West Virginia. Robin pulls imagery from various physical structures, such as geographical or geological forms and cultural icons, and merges them to create new visual configurations. She draws comparisons between aerial maps and Appalachian quilts, or employs the Chinese vessel form to convey the rhythm of space and time. Robin paints and draws with watercolor, graphite, wax and coal ash, materials that transmit historical process and geological time directly onto paper. This union of medium and concept, like the union of man-made structures to natural forms, is key to grasping the depth of Robin's art. Robin McClintock exhibits and lectures both regionally and nationally, and has been the recipient of the 1987 Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant and the Mountainmade Foundation Travel Grant, which allowed her to visit China through the Jingdezhen University/WVU Partnership Program in 2006. She was a visiting lecturer for the "Land Matters" exhibition at Marshall University and is included West Virginia Museum of Culture & History permanent public collection. Robin will also be in the upcoming exhibition "Autobiographies: Six West Virginia Artists" at the Clay Center for the Arts and Sciences in Charleston, WV on display September 26 through November 16. The reception for the artists is Thursday, September 25th, 2008, from 6pm to 8 pm, and is free and open to the public.