Elliott Jamal Robbins Screening and Artist Talk
Saturday, August 26th, 2023 | 7-9pm
437. E. Grant Rd.
Tucson, AZ 85705
Elliott Jamal Robbins, Nasty Little Fuckers, 2020, Hand-drawn animation, 51 seconds
Everybody is excited to host an artist talk and one night screening of animations with Elliott Jamal Robbins. Robbins’ use of animation plays off historical tropes of the genre while blending personal narratives and power structures typically excluded from the frame. Humor is not lost in these exercises - a 20th century slapstick style is applied to diverse subjects ranging from goathead thorns, to queer intimacy, to the late actor John Wayne. Robbins’ moving images slyly reference and interrogate the archive of American visual culture.
Schedule for the evening:
7:00-7:30pm: Looping animations will be screened and can be viewed at your own pace
7:30-8:00pm: Artist talk and Q&A
8:00-9:00pm: Reception with light refreshments - animations will continue to loop until 9:00pm
The artist talk will be held indoors in our east gallery. Due the size of the room, an RSVP is recommended for those planning to attend the talk and Q&A portion. Please email us at info@everybody.gallery or message us on Instagram (@everyyybodyyy) with how many people in your party will be attending.
This event marks Everybody’s fourth time working with Elliott Jamal Robbins.
About the Artist
Elliott Jamal Robbins (He/Him/They) (b. 1988, Oklahoma City) is an artist whose work engages with the archive of American visual culture through the act of subjunction, an insertion into the archive of images and moving images. They use cut-outs/collage, drawing, painting, text, and recurrent filmic and artistic motifs as mediums for their personal storytelling. In using material which carries with it the aesthetic history of a white-supremest and hetero-patriarchal culture, they produce a body of work that reinscribes the complexity of their lived experience into a visual field that was developed with the intention of flattening its subjects into stereotypes, and used to justify systemic violence against against them.
In 2017 Robbins received an MFA from the University of Arizona. Previously, they attended the University of Oklahoma, where they received a BFA. Since leaving school, Robbins has shown in solo and group exhibitions in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Berlin, and Basel. They have received many awards and honors, both nationally and internationally. Some include the Pollock Krasner Foundation Grant, the Contemporary Forum Artist Grant, a National Sculpture Society Scholarship, FJJMA Museum Association Award, the John F. and Anna Lee Stacey Scholarship, and the Momentum OKC 2014 Artist Spotlight. As well, their work has been featured in publications such as Propublica, NYT’s T Magazine, and Time Out New York.
Elliott Jamal Robbins is currently based in Muskogee, Oklahoma, USA.