Robbin
Deyo

Robbin Deyo

Swirl Stills

Info

  • SS 01:44:19, 2020
    oil on canvas, 160 x 284.5cm

  • SS 01:40:27, 2021
    oil on canvas, 160 x 284.5cm

  • left to right, SS 02:16:25, SS 04:32:21, SS 03:08:16
    exhibition view, Ottawa Art Gallery

  • SS 02:16:25, 2015 - 2016
    oil on canvas, 160 x 284.5cm

  • SS 02:16:25, 2015 - 2016
    detail

  • left to right, SS 04:32:21, SS 03:08:16
    exhibition view, Ottawa Art Gallery

  • SS 04:32:21, 2014 - 2015
    oil on canvas, 46 x 81cm

  • SS 03:08:16, 2014 - 2015
    oil on canvas, 76 x 135.5cm

  • SS 00:16:23, 2014 - 2015
    oil on canvas, 76 x 135.5cm

  • SS 01:48:18, 2014 - 2015
    oil on canvas, 46 x 81cm

  • left to right, SS 00:14:19, SS 02:51:15, SS 00:16:05
    exhibition view, Maison de la culture Côte-des-Neiges

  • SS 00:16:05, 2014
    oil on canvas, 76 x 135.5cm

  • left to right, SS 00:14:19, SS 02:51:15
    exhibition view, Maison de la culture Côte-des-Neiges

  • SS 00:14:19, 2014
    oil on canvas, 160 x 284.5cm

  • SS 02:51:15, 2014
    oil on canvas, 160 x 284.5cm

  • SS 02:51:15
    detail

  • Starbursts and other vibrations
    exhibition view, Maison de la culture Côte-des-Neiges

  • SS 09:36:01, 2014
    oil on canvas, 160 x 284.5cm

  • SS 00:00:08, 2014
    oil on canvas, 46 x 81cm

Swirl Stills were developed when I was experiencing a personal struggle to find order in my chaotic life, feeling pushed and pulled in so many directions, wanting to take up space, wanting to hide, feeling overwhelmed by all the energies of things, people and places – I methodically put that energy on canvas in the privacy of my studio.

This series of paintings developed with the same tools that have been my primary source of inspiration for the past 15 years; the 1960’s children’s toy Super Spirograph. The starting point for each piece is a video still from a defunct video animation, Swirl.  As with the video, these paintings emphasize the energies of dynamic colour combinations and an explosive sense of movement where rhythms and vibrations of patterns flicker, shimmer and radiate from the center of the paintings to their edges. The titles are the time code of the position where the still was on the timeline of the experimental versions of the animation

Swirl Stills were developed when I was experiencing a personal struggle to find order in my chaotic life, feeling pushed and pulled in so many directions, wanting to take up space, wanting to hide, feeling overwhelmed by all the energies of things, people and places – I methodically put that energy on canvas in the privacy of my studio.

This series of paintings developed with the same tools that have been my primary source of inspiration for the past 15 years; the 1960’s children’s toy Super Spirograph. The starting point for each piece is a video still from a defunct video animation, Swirl.  As with the video, these paintings emphasize the energies of dynamic colour combinations and an explosive sense of movement where rhythms and vibrations of patterns flicker, shimmer and radiate from the center of the paintings to their edges. The titles are the time code of the position where the still was on the timeline of the experimental versions of the animation