ABFA artist Nadine Robbins is highlighted in the Fine Art Connoisseur Magazine March/April 2021 issue available now. The feature discusses Robbins’ work in the current group exhibition, “3 Americans” hosted by the Arnot Art Museum in Elmira, New York.
“Renowned for its collection of contemporary realist art, the Arnot Museum in 2009 launched and exhibition series titled 3 Americans that is mounted every three years. The artists selected for the current edition the figure and still life painter Nadine Robbins, the landscapist and portraitist Bruce Muirhead, and Richard Masters, who makes monumental monochromatic drawings of cityscapes.
“Robbins’s participation is particularly noteworthy given the challenges she has faced recently. Trained att the State University of New York at New Paltz and now based 30 miles away in RRhinebeck, Robbins is presenting 15 works in Elmira. She explains, ‘In 2018, I was diagnosed with inflammation of the optic nerve, which destroyed most of the vision in my right eye. Without depth perception, I lost the ability to anticipate when my brush would strike the canvas, and I thought I would never paint again.’”