The first retrospective to display Robinson s work after her 2015 death, <em>Raggin On </em>at the Columbus Museum of Art celebrates the grandeur of simple objects and everyday tasks.
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In February of 2020, Don “DonCee” Coulter drove to New York City, where the Westbeth Gallery included his fabric work in a group show, “The Gold Standard of Textile and Fiber Art.” Coulter got to the gallery’s address an hour early for his artist talk and pulled into a nearby parking garage. The attendant was like, ‘I don t think you want to do this.’ I m like, ‘What are you talking about? I need to park.’ He was like, ‘It’s $55 an hour,’” said Coulter, who looked around and saw rows of luxury cars. “He was like, ‘Hurry up and back up before somebody comes in.’”
Aminah Brenda Lynn Robinson died in 2015, but just last week the
New York Timeswrote an obit for the legendary Columbus artist as part of Overlooked, a series of obituaries about remarkable people whose deaths, beginning in 1851, went unreported in
The Times.
The piece begins with a scene of Robinson rising at 4 a.m. to work on various art projects. A steady diet of coffee and cigarettes kept her awake, writes Kwame Opam. She worked this way for years up with the sun, down late at night, sleeping only a few hours before starting again.
Opam details Robinson s “RagGonNon artistic concept and includes interviews with Carole Genshaft, curator at large of the Columbus Museum of Art, and Deidre Hamlar, co-curator at CMA. It s worth a few minutes of your time.