The Robin MINDY Glassman

Memorial Fund for Art Workshops

The Robin Mindy Glassman Memorial Fund was established through a generous multi-year donation by Robin's husband, John Berman, family, and friends to honor Robin’s bright and creative life after her loss in 2021. Robin Mindy Glassman was a dedicated Creative Center workshop instructor, volunteer, participant, friend, and community member.

The RMGMF will celebrate Robin’s passion for art and her desire to share that passion with others through collective art-making. This amazing opportunity will allow The Creative Center to ensure that the Art Workshop programming is more robust and engaging and will deepen our relationships with our community members for years to come. It will increase the flexibility and number of art workshop offerings, allow for the purchase of new art materials and supplies, and support the development of new and exciting partnerships with teaching artists.

This Is Living With Cancer™

Robin’s story: Healing through art

Morphine Magic

“My mixed media drawings, paintings, and sculptures attempt to capture certain visual experiences: the sunlight as it hits flowing water, flocking birds appearing and disappearing as they circle overhead, and the way the wind makes leaves dance through the air.”

  • Robin Mindy Glassman

  • Themes of climate change and the impact trash and toxic materials have on the environment, our health, and well-being subtly guide my works and creative practices. 

  • To this end my pieces fuse recycled materials with non-toxic art supplies to create narratives related to personal and collective history, memory, and spiritual beliefs.

  • In addition, paints, pens, colored pencils, and markers, images from my used calendars, travel photos, collected memorabilia, found objects, wood, tree stumps, sand, wire, guitar strings, mirrors, feathers, fabric, shells, and beads are my palette.

  • For my sculptures, I include post consumer non-biodegradable formed polystyrene (Styrofoam) packing material as the base. 

  • The lightweight permanence of the material and how its encased to look heavy, sharply contrasts the ephemeral and transcendent overall qualities.

BIO.

Robin M. Glassman’s mixed media works are fueled by emotions, memories, and sensory and tactile experiences.  Glassman incorporates found objects, collected materials, and personal memorabilia into her art pieces, creating abstract art that relates to environmental, personal, and/or social history.

"Once a socially outgoing and talkative child, my life changed drastically when I was a teenager.   Diagnosed with Hodgkin’s Lymphoma,  the two and one half years of traveling to NYC for treatment became routine. While distancing myself from friends and school activities,  I began focusing instead on mastering backgammon, John Gnagy’s Learn To Draw, and assembling jigsaw puzzles. The hospital environment also exposed me to patients, doctors, and hospital staff with diverse racial and ethnic backgrounds, and spiritual belief systems, gave me a broader view of the world than my Jewish suburban neighborhood on Long Island.

I moved to Manhattan at seventeen to attend art school - first for graphic design and then for art education.  Afterwards, I spent time in Philadelphia - selling art supplies to pay my rent, while painting, drawing, and selling handmade jewelry.  During my two and a half years, I was absorbed in the city’s more intimate art scene as I experimented with a variety of mixed media, painting, and sculpture to create unique artworks.  I began to identify as a mostly self-taught artist and continue to think of myself in that vain.

I have been strongly influenced by poet, painter and printmaker, William Blake and the metaphysical richly textured work of twentieth century artists like Andre Masson and Mark Tobey.  In addition are also, the playful paintings and sculptures of Jean Miro and the complex optical illusionary graphics of MC Escher. And while briefly studying with artists such as Ursula von Rydingsvard (NYC), Christine Martin (NYC), and B. Amore (VT) I absorbed their philosophies and was exposed to the intimate heartbeat of powerful imagery. My own artistic practice is thoughtful, contemplative, and playful."

GALLERY

Ice to Water, A meditation in polystyrene and oxygen tubes.

ANGEL CHARIOT MEDITATION SERIES

  • Ice to Water

  • Ice to Water Gloves and Tubes

  • Chariot Detail

  • Chariot with Angel

  • Ice to Water Side Detail Hand to Hand

  • Ice to Water a Meditation of Breath Health Blessings

  • Ice to Water Detail

  • Ice to Water Detail

  • Red Line Angel

Mixed Media Collage

Chakra Keyhole Meditation

Chakra Keyhole Meditation

Untitled

Untitled

The Allegorical Diamond in the Mud, whose Brilliance is Undimmed by Temporary Conditions

The Allegorical Diamond in the Mud, whose Brilliance is Undimmed by Temporary Conditions

Visceral Pleura Reflects Outward

Visceral Pleura Reflects Outward

Epiphany

Epiphany

Virtual Suspension

Virtual Suspension

DRAWINGS

  • RAD!

  • CELLULAR

  • WU CHI

  • LANDSCAPE WITH EGG

  • DREAMWAVES

  • FLUID MEMORIES

INTERPLAy WITH NATUre, Music and Movement

INTERPLAY II

INTERPLAY II

Spin

Spin

A Slice of Nature

A Slice of Nature

Forte

Forte

INTERPLAY II (detail)

INTERPLAY II (detail)

INTERPLAY II (detail)

INTERPLAY II (detail)

FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT ROBIN or to inquire about her work

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