Mask in a bowl

Threading small sticks through paper. Layered trancing paper. Seeing through out of focus base layer.

Aprendiendo del agua / Learning from Water 

Twelve inch square section of a cut paper collage (cut paper and glue sticks on mat board). 

Ride Off Into the Sunset (detail)

A pair of silver earrings which consists of a textured metal, a soldered bezel, and a peridot CZ stone.  It is given a patina finish to highlight the circular background texture.  The ear wires are hand made from argentium silver. 

Peridot Earrings

A layered print showing a community of navy and yellow round and angled shapes patterned to give the illusion of movement.

Another Day on the Info Transit

Pikachu with his mouth open in surprise made of natural and hand-painted seeds glued on top of the year 2020 made from red and orange hand-painted and torn paper collage. 


Surprised Pikachu 2020

Profile image of a turkey vulture's head with its mouth wide open with a pixelated or small cube design.

Carrion, My Wayward Son

A photo of a model, tightly cropped chin to waist, wearing a 5-layer statement necklace over a white shirt; the layers are comprised (from top to bottom) of a large-link chain, another large link chain with a large diamond pendant, a third layer that has eleven (11) WWJD pendants with pictures of Jesus, a fourth gold chain layer, and a fifth/final layer, reminiscent of a pearl rosemary.

WWJPDIJPWD - “What Could Jesus’s Piece Do If Jesus’s Peace Would Do?” (PROJEKT #5)

An abstract painting - two pieces of a dismembered shank bone, wired into a wooden panel, one of which has inserted into it a feather.  The panel carries sgraffiti, of which can be read "BEASTS."  It is painted in black, a bit of bright red and blue teal, the colored pencil scribbles are white, lime green and forest green

Beasts, Bone and Feather

In the center of the canvas board text is written "I Love U My Lil Lady Grams Nay Miss's U... I Do..." The O in Love is shaped like a heart. The background is lightly shaded pink with bubble hearts floating. The text is bordered with flowers on a vine. The canvas board is bordered along the top and bottom with rhinestone ribbon.

I Love U My Lil Lady

Honeycomb

An altered book opened to reveal a lighted lamppost on a hill of snow beyond miniature pines and a section of wardrobe.

Spare Oom Secret

2 abstract wood ducks (male & female) on a log. Image is digitally-built Photoshop collage made up with combination of hand-painted elements, corporate logos & rhinestones. It is printed on blotter paper & the sky is differently sized coins that fit into one grid tab of the blotter paper to produce a psychedelic effect. There is a cartoon speech bubble as well with the phrase "Ugh, stop saying 'back door shrimp."

Beachstep

Blinded

A photo captured inside of three connecting dark window panes surrounded by a large dark border. Through the window the viewer sees dark green vines on the window, with trees, fog, & an outline of a building in the background. 

Nature’s Outlook

Paper quilling of a multi-colored hummingbird, orange, burgundy, greens, and black, hovering over a yellow petaled flower and bud with green stems, framed in black with fine burgundy line centered in the black. 

Hummingbird Greets the Yellow Flower

A collage of screenprinted papers on coral paper taped to a letterpress print of a variety of black shapes printed on top of blue shapes.

Untitled

Mixed Media Collage of 1950's hollywood type sitting atop a circular ViewMaster reel Titles Move Stars, Hollywood. Space like circles balance out the area

Starlet

A mixed-media assemblage showing headstones in a Jewish cemetery in Europe.

Shard

A photo collage using memories from my grandmother’s scrapbook and a photograph I took of the fall colors on the Mississippi River.

Nostalgia 

An mosaic image of a bee created with seeds and grains in the center of a canvas board. It is natural colored with black, cream, and tan tones. The corners of the piece feature a honey comb motif. 

During COVID quarantine this past spring, when school was all virtual, Dylan (age 5) did a lot of paint-by-stickers.  This was a great opportunity for creative activities by counting numbers and great eye-hand coordination.  

Sparkle Dragon

A green meadow with pine trees. Butterfly and lady bug rest on blue flowers. All under a brilliant pink sunset.

Meadow Mountain

This carved book sculpture, "biblio-excavation", is created by removing all the excess text leaving only selected imagery. Images are backed with acid free cardstock to make them more ridged. The text block is sealed shut so only the cover opens. This creates both an easy way to display the sculpture as well as a simple storage solution since the work can be shut and housed with the rest of your readable library.

"Our Human Body: Its Wonder's & Its Care"

A collage including magazine clippings, old photographs, and transfer pens exploring ideas of change and disruption.

Floating

A red painting in a black frame, a girl with yellow hair with broken legs, in a blue dress holding a red flower. 

Sixteen half eggshells with artwork inside. Most eggshells have mark making, painting and/or drawings on the inside of the eggshells including fingerprints, geometric shapes, house forms, and text. Others have objects inside including seed forms and a lock of hair.    

Life

A screen printed image of a skull placed on top of acrylic paint. The skull appears to be melting and dripping, its primary color is green mixed with blue, outlined in orange and dark navy. The acrylic paint behind the skull are thick vertical brush strokes; black, yellow, teal, lime green, pink, magenta, royal blue, black. 

SMPTE Skull

A collage of a woman wearing sunglasses and yellow tears surrounded by flowers and splotches of paint in a pop brightly colored pop culture style.

Psychedelic Tears

A mass produced trash receptacle in the afternoon sun. 

trying to help

This is a black-and-white photocopy of an image of the Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci, with text written in the margins.

Mask in a bowl, 2020

Robin Young