From Tuesday, September 4, through Friday, October 26, the Community Room will feature the artwork of Andrew Robinson. On Saturday, September 8, from 4:30pm to 6:00pm, the public is invited to an Artist’s Reception in the Community Room where they can enjoy light refreshments and have an opportunity to meet Andrew in person, as well as purchase his books. Andrew says of his work:
“Since my childhood I have a had huge affinity for the human figure. My style is built upon a foundation of life drawing, life painting, and art history, with a focus on early twentieth century modern art, a BFA in illustration, years of producing art for graphic novels, animation, magazines, posters and trading cards. In 2013, with the release of The Fifth Beatle I became a NYTimes best-selling artist. In the following year I won the Eisner award, Harvey Award and the Silver Rueben from the National Cartoonist’s Society for my painted illustrations in The Fifth Beatle graphic novel and in 2015 Brazil awarded me best foreign sequential artist with the release of the Portuguese translated version.
My personal work continues to focus on the figure. Undertones of tragic love and the space that brings us together and the universe that tears us apart are visually defined with ambiguous backgrounds and graphic design sensibilities. My technique is a mixed media combination of acrylic, oils, colored inks, vine charcoal and layers of magazine transfer and collage. The exhibit at the Altadena Library will include my personal paintings as well as selected original pages from The Fifth Beatle.”
Follow Andrew on Twitter and Instagram va@spacejunkees.