Transmission Lines
by Bryce Robinson
Exhibition Dates: May through November 2022
Location: Post-Security, near gates E34 and 36
Like a pilot circling, it began as a holding pattern. A way to keep the hands and mind occupied while waiting for something on the ground to change. “Non-essential” I gave myself the job of tending vats of dye in the backyard… yellow, red, green, black and blue. For months I processed cork and wood through the vats. Every day witnessing material transformation while everything around me seemed to deteriorate or stay the same.
My pattern expanded into a series of discreet month-long operations. Reclaiming lumber, ripping boards, sanding, shaping, chamfering, gluing, and painting. Each a distraction from the world and a private world unto itself. At the outset of each phase I would transform my studio and re-cast my mindset for the task at hand. While much of my work employs units at a large scale, this process was unique in its obsessive nature. Keeping my hands and eyes engaged, holding the pattern, trying to not look at the ground.
These are meditations on our ongoing public health tragedy. Whether you lost a loved one or simply felt lost, we have all been touched by Covid-19. If we hope to overcome such existential threats to our global community we must become more than simply the sum of our parts.
I held each of these materials countless times throughout the pandemic and in doing so they helped hold me together. I would like to thank Lambert Airport, Via Partnership, my community, my family, my shop crew and Maria for helping me finally land the plane.
About the Artist: Bryce Robinson
Bryce Olen Robinson is an Artist from Ferguson, Missouri. His meticulous, often large-scale works examine contemporary social and political themes. He holds an MFA from Washington University and a BFA from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
Robinson has taught sculpture at number of colleges and universities, notably the University of Notre Dame where he served as visiting professor of Sculpture for four years. Robinson now serves as the Assistant Manager of Shops and Making Spaces at the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Art at Washington University in St. Louis.
Bryce is deeply committed to North St. Louis County where he resides. In 2014 Robinson founded the 7-acre Jeske Sculpture Park in Ferguson. The park is free to the public and showcases biennial exhibitions of outdoor sculpture from across the United States.
For more information, visit: www.bryceolenrobinson.com
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