Chicago Paintings

These paintings were created at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago during a residency there in 2005. While painting this I was crying, thinking about painful emotions of self doubt and fear.The initial line drawing was done in 2 minutes as an impression of my feelings, not intellectualized or corrected. Black and white acrylic was applied followed by about 20 lawyers of Galkyd mixed with oil paint and rubbed off to create a patina.This took several years.


Chicago Memories

Selective Memory offers the viewer a time traveler’s glance into the private lives of a mid-century California family. Shot on super 8 film in 1959-1966, these photographic images are Robin Repp's own very personal memories, sometimes chaotic, lifted and revisited as a moment in time. We are there for intimate, family events, enlarged to abstraction, blurred and faded by time.  Unreliable memory gives way  to sometimes barely recognizable images.  Like a personal Zapruder film, viewed over and over again, Robin Repp stops on just a few fleeting frames for a brief glimpse of the past.

Selective Memory

Infrared Photography, men waiting for work in the landscape

Waiting for Work at Home Depot

Social Commentary

California Landscapes Infrared Photography