Robin Hill: What Remains and Fractured, 2025
January 17 - March 7, 2026
S.E.E.P. Space
California
This work builds on my decades-long interest in the relationship between drawing and sculpture. The drawings are made with, wax, India ink, and paper, through processes of melting, saturating, crumpling, blotting, and carving. The objects consist of a growing collection of vintage washtubs which contain sculptural forms made from blotter paper artifacts, recovered from the process of making the drawings. I have transformed the blotter paper into a sculptural material, shaping it with water and actions of pressing, wringing, squeezing and drying. The resulting rock-hard forms are arrested in a state of stillness, as if their worker has just stepped away and will return to finish her task. I think of these works as meditations on the interchangeability of destruction and reconstruction, ruination and restoration, becoming and unbecoming.