Sleepy

Sleepy

Elliott Jamal Robbins
Shelley Turley

March 12th - April 17th 2022
Open Saturdays 1-4 and by appointment

Press Release

"Bugs don't sleep"

In the misty morning, ideas are living breathing things dislodged from a vigilant and insomniac rationality. Sleepy is an exhibition of new work by Elliott Jamal Robbins and Shelley Turley, two painters who work through liminal states. Minds adrift birth disparate connections and complicated and unresolved narratives. In Crawling, an erect caterpillar conflates Robbins’s interests in pre disney comic artist George Herriman, minstrelsy and Hollywood creature design. Turley’s Mothers and Sons centers the tiniest of cats in an intimate familial portrait. A moment looking out from the hearth, a guitar waiting to be strummed, nostalgia scratching at the door. Sit up and rub your eyes, morning is here in the murk.

Petra Poffenberger and Chase Allgood

Sleepy at Helen's Costume, installation view

Elliott Jamal Robbins, Crawl, 2021, Watercolor on paper, 24 x 18 inches

Elliott Jamal Robbins, Delight, 2021, Watercolor on paper, 24 x 18 inches

Elliott Jamal Robbins, Pray, 2021, Watercolor on paper, 24 x 18 inches

Elliott Jamal Robbins, Cleanse, 2021, Watercolor on paper, 24 x 18 inches

Elliott Jamal Robbins, Call, 2021, Watercolor on paper, 24 x 18 inches

Shelley Turley, Mothers and Sons, 2021, oil and acrylic on paper, 24 x 18 inches

Shelley Turley, Love for Love, 2021, oil and acrylic on paper, 12 x 9 inches

Shelley Turley, Heiress, 2022, oil and acrylic on canvas 14 x 11 inches

Shelley Turley, Footloose, 2022, oil and acrylic on canvas, 40 x 30 inches

Shelley Turley, Moon Moods,, 2022, oil and acrylic on canvas, 13 x 14 inches

Shelley Turley, Footloose(detail), 2022, oil and acrylic on canvas, 40 x 30 inches

Shelley Turley, Love for Love, 2022, watercolor on paper, 8 x 6 inches

Shelley Turley, Lazy Afternoon, 2022, watercolor on paper, 8 x 6 inches

Shelley Turley, Making believe, 2022, watercolor on paper, 8 x 6 inches

Shelley Turley, Real live boy, 2022, watercolor on paper, 8 x 6 inches

Shelley Turley, Lunette, 2022, watercolor on paper, 8 x 6 inches

Shelley Turley, Stranger in paradise, 2022, watercolor on paper, 8 x 6 inches

Elliott Jamal Robbins, Choo Choo Trains, 2021, hand drawn animation, 1:48. Courtesy of Kai Matsumiya Gallery, New York