a non-profit gallery for the visual and performing arts

2833-A Hathaway Rd., Richmond, VA 23225
in the Stratford Hills Shopping Center

Gallery hours beginning Saturday, January 22, 2022:
Noon to 4pm, Tuesday - Sunday
Free and Open to the Public
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Phil Robinson's artwork is available for purchase from our online store. Click here.

Flap Jackson Black Lives Batter Pancake Mix digital serigraph 48 x 36 inches, 2019 Buy Now: $800.00	Greater Good digital serigraph 35 x 24 inches, 2019 Buy Now: $500.00
Minor League Racist digital serigraph 28 x 44 inches, 2019 Buy Now: $600.00	If You Can't... digital serigraph 28 x 24 inches, 2019 Buy Now: $400.00
Blue on Black Crime Matters digital serigraph 28 x 42 inches, 2019 Buy Now: $800.00	Trumpist digital serigraph 25 x 35 inches, 2019 Buy Now: $600.00
Bi-Partisan digital serigraph 22 x 34 inches, 2019 Buy Now: $400.00	D.A.N. digital serigraph 40 x 26 inches, 2019 Buy Now: $400.00
Stepin Fetchin Ketchup digital serigraph 48 x 22 inches, 2019 Buy Now: $800.00	Two Scoops digital serigraph 16 x 44 inches, 2020 Now: $400.00
Accident on Board digital serigraph 32 x 25 inches, 2019 Buy Now: $500.00	Medicare For All digital serigraph 28 x 36 inches, 2019 Buy Now: $
Still at Large digital serigraph 40 x 22 inches, 2020 Buy Now: $	Black Guide to Safer Living digital serigraph 28 x 32 inches, 2019 Buy Now: $400.00
Freedom Lies digital serigraph 24 x 44 inches, 2019 Buy Now: $700.00	Black Trans' Burden digital serigraph 35 x 20 inches, 2020 Buy Now: $800.00
The Who’s Who of Who Show digital serigraph 40 x 26 inches, 2020 Buy Now: $500.00

April 24 - May 17, 2020

Phil Robinson – "Agit Pop's Strong-T"

Digital Serigraphs
Virtual Exhibition

Phil Robinson's artwork is available for purchase from our online store. Click here.

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Artist Statement

This exhibition represents critique of reality and the need for solidarity. Tension between the two isnt a matter of reconciliation. Art has never been just a well-behaved child affirming the best in all things, rather it agitates "the good": prove your value.

The irony of these images is complicit in their divisiveness by calling out bigotry. One way or another, someone feels offended, defensive, or personally indicted. Everyone has a right to their anger; doing something is a moral, ethical, legal matter. For the struggling classes, one mortgage, tuition, childcare payment away from disaster, solidarity asks: "would you rather be angry and powerless or powerfully equal?" If solidarity can change, recreate reality, then my art is a solidarity of laughing while crying out loud with everyone.

Artist Bio

Phil Robinson is a Chicago native who has exhibited throughout the Midwest in Chicago, Indianapolis, Memphis, and various places throughout Missouri. Robinson’s creative practice has included sculpture, installation, 3D design, and cross-disciplinary media. He has also created public artworks for numerous state and local agencies and worked as a design consultant. Robinson earned his BFA in painting and drawing at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago and his MFA at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He served as an adjunct instructor of art, and then the Henry L. and Natalie Freund Fellow of Painting, at Washington University in St. Louis before coming to UMSL. In 1998, he performed Hot Buttered Blackman for the Contemporary Artist’s Series at the St. Louis Art Museum. In 2009, he created Ornamental Bodies for Gallery 239 at Chadron State College, as well as The Codex Project at the Contemporary Art Gallery at Florissant Valley Community College in Ferguson, Missouri. In 2010, Robinson participated in the 23rd Annual Nude show for the Kentucky Art League at Gallery 209 in Lexington, Kentucky. He also showed his artwork at the North Florida Community College gallery in Madison, Florida in 2010.

Reprinted from University of Missouri-St. Louis website.