Showing at Intersection Cafe – 100 Elmwood Avenue
Featuring – Photographs of Buffalo’s LGBTQ community’s response and support of the Black Lives Matter protests and recent calls to action.
Brianna is an artist who mainly works with photography. By applying abstraction, Robinson focuses on the idea of ‘public space’ and more specifically on spaces where anyone can do anything at any given moment: the non-private space, the non-privately owned space, space that is economically uninteresting.
Her photos are often about contact with people, architecture and basic living elements. Space and landscape are examined in less obvious ways and sometimes developed in absurd ways. By taking daily life as subject matter while commenting on the everyday aesthetic of lower and middle class values, she creates intense personal moments masterfully created by means of rules and omissions, acceptance and refusal, all while highlighting the diversity and culture around her.
Within these dreamlike images well-known tropes merge, meanings shift, past and present fuse. Time and memory always play a key role. In a search for new methods to ‘read the city’, she tries to create works in which the actual event still has to take place or just has ended: moments evocative of atmosphere and suspense that are not part of a narrative thread. The drama unfolds elsewhere while the build-up of tension is frozen to become the memory of an event that will never take place.
Her works are characterized by the use of everyday people and objects in which anonymity and isolation play important roles.
In a search for new methods to ‘read the city’, she often creates work using self assigned projects where different rules apply than in everyday life and even everyday objects undergo transubstantiation. Brianna Robinson currently lives and works in Buffalo.