Along Water Street
New Work by Aminah Brenda Lynn Robinson
June 25-September 6, 2009
Organized by the Columbus Museum of Art • Carole Genshaft, Ph.D., Curator
Along Water Street is a cosmology or “creation story” that Columbus artist Aminah Brenda Lynn Robinson (born 1940) has pieced together based upon the stories she lovingly absorbed from her Uncle Alvin. These stories were shared over a period of almost fifty years, from the time she was three years old in 1943 until her uncle’s death in 1990. She has threaded these stories together with her own belief that life began to grow out of the Earth thousands of years ago and has evolved to the present. Like the layered stories that result, this work by Aminah, as she prefers to be known, is the product of a layering process in which she combines rags, buttons, shells, and other found objects with pen and ink and paint on paper.
For more information on Aminah and her work, please visit www.aminahsworld.org.
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