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Email PageWomen & Water
April 27, 2006- May 27, 2006
Reception: April 27, 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Carole Robb
Robert Steele Gallery
511 W 25th St Carole Robb Empty Fountain |  Carole Robb Lake at Villa d'Este |  Carole Robb Roman Housewife (2005) |
Robb was in Italy at the Villa d’Este, Tivoli. It’s a 16th c. summer palace built by a Cardinal and there are water-fantasia gardens where water trickles from the mouths of beasts and the breasts of goddesses. It starts as a trickle and ends in torrents on the lowest terrace. The site was closing when she saw a woman lying on a bench, one knee raised and her arm shielding her eyes from the sun. She saw her again as she exited and now she stood with one leg pressed against a wall like a stork. She was wearing a black cocktail dress: on a tourist site. Robb never saw her again. The next morning she hired a model, bought a similar dress and reconstructed the pose, working at the Villa. The paintings in this exhibition Women and Water were begun at that time and worked on in Rome, Venice and New York. By placing the women close to water the two elements result in more than the sum of these elements. The women are in a pictorial plot and the theatre is Rome.
Robb attended Glasgow School of Art and studied with Terry Frost at University of Reading (MFA 1979). Her major awards include the Prix de Rome, the British Arts Council and a Fulbright Fellowship. Robb’s solo exhibitions include AIR Gallery, London, the South London Art Gallery, J. D. Fassbinder Gallery, Berlin, Forum Gallery, New York and C’a D’Oro Gallery, Rome. Her work is in the permanent collections of the Metropolitan Museum, New York, the Imperial War Museum, London and the Victoria & Albert Museum, London.
A fully illustrated catalogue will accompany this exhibition.
ROBB will give a Slide Lecture on her work at the New York Studio School. 8 West 8th Street on Tuesday April 4, 2006 at 6.30pm. A reception to follow the lecture.
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