The Artist
...Art is my Lover & Friend,
mirroring my cusps & crossings,
milestones & impasses, high noons,
zero hours, points of no return
& standstills.
Art fires through; using me
for findings & confusions,
joys, serenity or ferocity.
When I’m scared or sad, in love or lust,
richer or poorer, in sickness or health,
Art materializes.
mirroring my cusps & crossings,
milestones & impasses, high noons,
zero hours, points of no return
& standstills.
& standstills.
Art fires through; using me
for findings & confusions,
joys, serenity or ferocity.
for findings & confusions,
joys, serenity or ferocity.
When I’m scared or sad, in love or lust,
richer or poorer, in sickness or health,
richer or poorer, in sickness or health,
Art materializes.
Feral minds interest me. - Robbi Firestone
Biography
Artist Robbi Firestone's work has been featured in the New York Times, Worth Magazine, Huffington Post, Parade, Los Angeles Travel, Boston Herald, Seattle Times, inaugural cover of the Santa Fean NOW, and more (Featured Press).
A full-time artist for 20+ years, Firestone creates digital artwork, oil paintings, landscapes & portrait. She is available for NFT commissioned art for auction with full copyright transfer.
Commissioned portraits include note-able art collectors, multi-Grammy Winners, CEOs, athletes and global visionaries.
International best-selling film producer of "What the Bleep Do We Know?", Betsy Chasse, created a documentary film about Firestone's art (Available on Amazon Prime.)
Chasse's film and Firestone's art installation premiered at the United Nations in Parallel with Commission on Status of Women.
International awards include "Iconic Leaders Bettering the World for All", bestowed by Women's Economic Forum 2017 in Delhi, India and the Global Women's Empowerment Network.
Firestone served on the Board of Hollywood Council of the Arts.
She studied art at Parsons, Fashion Institute of Technology, and Pasadena Art Center, and attended Washington University (Go Huskies!).
Firestone lives, paints, skis and hikes and nerds out on crypto currency and NFTs in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Artist Robbi Firestone's work has been featured in the New York Times, Worth Magazine, Huffington Post, Parade, Los Angeles Travel, Boston Herald, Seattle Times, inaugural cover of the Santa Fean NOW, and more (Featured Press).
A full-time artist for 20+ years, Firestone creates digital artwork, oil paintings, landscapes & portrait. She is available for NFT commissioned art for auction with full copyright transfer.
Commissioned portraits include note-able art collectors, multi-Grammy Winners, CEOs, athletes and global visionaries.
International best-selling film producer of "What the Bleep Do We Know?", Betsy Chasse, created a documentary film about Firestone's art (Available on Amazon Prime.)
Chasse's film and Firestone's art installation premiered at the United Nations in Parallel with Commission on Status of Women.
International awards include "Iconic Leaders Bettering the World for All", bestowed by Women's Economic Forum 2017 in Delhi, India and the Global Women's Empowerment Network.
Firestone served on the Board of Hollywood Council of the Arts.
She studied art at Parsons, Fashion Institute of Technology, and Pasadena Art Center, and attended Washington University (Go Huskies!).
Firestone lives, paints, skis and hikes and nerds out on crypto currency and NFTs in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
“Indivisible: Quarantine & Creating Art”
by Robbi Firestone, December 11, 2020
In 2020, an uninvited, unexpected moment of Truth descended upon the globe.
We are living through a shocking, defining time: historically, politically, culturally, existentially. Individually, we face important questions;
"What is it like to live under quarantine?
How do we cope?
What happens to our mental, physical, collective health?
What is the story each of us will tell?" and,
"What was my role in 2020?”
My passion is to support folks in need, hand-in-hand, face to face. Medically, however I am vulnerable to Covid, thanks to bi-lateral pulmonary embolisms at 42, resulting in my-not-so-good lungs.
Rather than launch outward, habitually, I’ve deepened, inwardly….Created a cave of a subterranean studio, listening for hours at a time to echoed, haunting music, exploring subjects and medium in new ways.
Art is my Lover and Friend, mirroring my cusps and crossings, milestones and impasses, high noons, zero hours, points of no return and standstills.
Art uses me (like a fire) through findings and confusions, joys, serenity or ferocity. When I’m scared or sad, in love or lust, richer or poorer, in sickness (and now gratefully, in health,) it all materializes as Art.
One story of 2020? My head is clearer. Hunger to make? Unsuppressed.
I’ve slowed and rested…am unabashedly experimenting: finger-painting with oils, writing intentions on golden under-coats (which go hidden or remain), scraping away fogs, exploring ‘Black is Beautiful’ with soft pastel on suede, breaking color and softening gradations into blood reds....
Inspiration is emerging with an unexpected ease...from deep within my psyche. I’ve found more confidence, care and an immense freedom while creating these new bodies of work.
My hope is my new works, (steeped in humble reverence for our Collective 2020), will enliven, quicken and inspire Viewers to face forward to 2021 to remember those we’ve lost. To ‘molt' aspects of society and Self which no longer serve. To embrace one another. To hold dear this beautiful world, and country, that we share.
Lest we not forget: Indivisible…With Liberty and Justice for All.
