Resources
The content on this site is generated by those of our members who have personal blogs. By no means is this the extent of our collective.
See below members of our extended family, esteemed influences (in no particular order), and arts organizations and resources in line with our interests.
We’ll add much more to this list as we go. Check back.
Friends and influences-
Reuben Margolin
Stephane Halleux
Arthur Ganson
Theo Jansen
Matt Devine
Tim Hawkinson
Olivier Pauwels
Carl Pisaturo
Dug North
Jessica Joslin
Chistopher Conte
Meats Meier
Kenji Yanobe
I-Wei
Serge Jupin
Jeff De Boer
Chris Bathgate
Michael Pflueger
Edouard Martinet
Sophie Naylor
Dylan Kehde Roelofs
Sam Deal
Kyle Fokken
Michihiro Matsuoka
Randy Regier
Lee Bontecou
Mike Rivamonte
Clayton Bailey
Alexander Calder and Calder’s Circus
The Village Petstore and Charcoal Grill
Nam June Paik
Vladimir Tatlin
Jean Tinguely
Sir Jacob Epstein
Institutions/Organizations/Blogs
Cabaret Mechanical Theatre
Kinetica Museum
Kineticus
Les Machines de L’Ile
Five Ton Crane
Boing Boing
Musee Mecanique
ARTIST’S STATEMENT
by Amos Robinson
My first memories are of being surrounded by art and antiquities. My mother was an accomplished painter; my grandparents and parents had a gallery and antique shops in New York City, Houston and upstate New York. However, none of that sparked my future life as an artist.
When I was twelve, our parents took my brothers and me to the Guggenheim’s Calder exhibit. To that point, whenever we entered a gallery, museum or antique shop, the words we heard were, “Boys, put your hands in your pockets and do not touch anything.”
Then came the Calder exhibit. The first words from the docent were, “Go ahead, son, make it move; bring it to life.”
These words are my mantra. I want to bring my metals to life. I call my work “reflective kinetics” – hand-formed stainless steel that responds to light and movement (whether induced by the human hand or the environment).
http://gallery.mac.com/famosart/100100692 or 100744