Discipline: Visual Art – photography

Abby Robinson

Discipline: Visual Art – photography
Region: New York, NY
MacDowell Fellowships: 1979

Abby Robinson lives and works in NYC. She teaches at the School of Visual Arts in both the B.F.A. Photography & Video and Graphic Design & Advertising Departments.

One of her first jobs as a photographer was working for a detective. She says "slippery, mysterious stuff continues to inform my photography. I still hunt for evidence, like to travel and have a proclivity to stare."

Studios

Mixter

Abby Robinson worked in the Mixter studio.

Built in 1927–1930, the Florence Kilpatrick Mixter Studio was funded by its namesake and designed by the architect F. Winsor, Jr., who also designed MacDowell's original Savidge Library in 1925. Mixter Studio, solidly built of yellow and grey-hued granite, once had sweeping views of Pack Monadnock to the east. The lush forest has now grown…

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