India Ink Sculptures

Materials: Newspaper, paper string and India ink After working as a textile artist for nearly two decades, in 1998, Iwasaki began making both baskets and her own paper. In 2000, her...

Mari Ito was born in Tokyo, Japan in 1980. She majored in Nihonga, Japanese-style painting made with traditional practices, techniques and materials. She moved to Barcelona (Spain) i...

Peace Meets Quiet by Morgan Robinson is a white and gold contemporary abstract sculpture design made of douglas fir, India ink, milk paint, gold leaf that measures 36 x 15 and is priced at $7,600. An artist from Stillwater, Oklahoma working primarily with wood and metal. I received my BFA in sculpture from the University of Central Oklahoma where I had the freedom to experiment with furniture as art. After finishing my bachelor’s degree, I went and worked as a custom cabinet maker for 5 years. The cabinetry helped refine wood working skills and techniques. I then took advantage of an opportunity to further my skills traveling to Japan and learning traditional methods of wood working used for centuries. Upon returning back to my home town here in Stillwater, I have set up my woodworking studio and am focusing on merging eastern philosophies of minimalism and sculptural form into a functional beautiful artistic statement to add to the quality of our daily lives. EXHIBITIONS 2009 Project Gallery, Stillwater, OK 2009 Town & Gown Theater, Stillwater, OK 2008 café & gallery Sora, Nara, Japan 2004 Oklahoma Visual Arts Coalition "Momentum”, Oklahoma City, OK 2003 Joseph's Gallery, Stillwater, OK 2002 leitmotif, Oklahoma City, OK 2002 Vertigo, Stillwater, OK ARTIST BIOGRAPHY What started as a childhood fascination with shapes and sizes has turned into an artistic endeavor for one Stillwater man who has discovered a unique way to use wine, wood, fire and glue to bring his sculptures and furniture creations to life. Morgan Robinson says he was always intrigued with the reflections he saw in the school bus windows as a child. “I wasn’t as interested in what was outside the window as I was in the images the sunlight was creating on the window,” Robinson said. That interest never waned. Indeed, it grew into a passion that would lead Robinson to Mexico and Japan seeking new ways to turn the images in his mind into the creations he would eventually show in art galleries in other countries and at home. Studio Artist Beginnings As a college student at the University of Central Oklahoma, Robinson studied jewelry making. He learned to work with metal designing and making small items such as pendants. He soon moved from jewelry to metal castings and decided to pursue metal as a medium for his art. Eager to discover new tools and techniques, he took a job at a foundry in Ponca City. “I was still trying to understand metal,” Robinson said. “I went to Mexico and worked in a foundry there when I was 21. I learned to use tools I would have never been exposed to here.” Soon he was casting tables...