The Shadow and the Light

• Drypoint

Jenny Robinson (British, b. 1957) was born in London and raised in Borneo. She earned a BFA in Printmaking from West Surrey College of Art and Design and was an Artist in Residence at Kala Art Institute in Berkeley, California, for over a decade.

Robinson has traveled extensively, living and working in London, San Francisco, Slovenia, and Australia, whose buildings and structures she often references in her work. She has taught at Kala Art Institute, the San José Institute of Contemporary Art, the San Francisco Book Center, and the University of Chico, and in 2019 was awarded the Mario Avati Prix de Gravure by the Académie des Beaux-Arts in Paris.

Jenny Robinson’s work explores the visual language of architecture, structure, and form, often reimagining familiar elements of the built and natural environment through abstraction and deconstruction. Drawing on symmetry, tessellation, and formal reduction, she reframes recognizable spaces — industrial sites, frameworks, and skeletal structures — into new, imagined constructs that are at once familiar and transformed. Her work blurs the line between observation and invention, inviting viewers to reconsider the spaces that shape our collective memory.