Robin Tewes

Robin Tewes (born 1950) is a Queens-born, New York City-based artist, known before the to the front 1980s for her representational paintings of frozen, narrative-like moments. She has shown her con in numerous solo exhibitions in New York City, as skillfully as nationally and internationally, and exhibited at venues including postscript 1, the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum, The Drawing Center, and the Central Academy of Fine Arts (Beijing), among many. Her law has been widely discussed in publications including Artforum, Art in America, ARTnews, Tema Celeste, the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, and the Village Voice. Tewes was a founding supporter of the supplement 122 Painting Association. She has been approved with a Pollock-Krasner Foundation Fellowship (2015) and Painting Award (2008), an Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Foundation Award (2007), and captivation in the Smithsonian Archives of American Art in 2016.

Tewes paints undistinguished people and domestic interiors in a precise, almost deadpan style that Artforum critic Ronny Cohen called "searingly direct" in its presentation of recommendation and emotional impact. She often incorporates subtle, graffiti-like text into her paintings, suggesting cutting or disquieting thoughts, conversations or social commentary upon the scene brute portrayed. ARTnews Barbara Pollack described Tewes's play-act as maintaining "an edgy explanation between surrealism and soap opera." In complement to her art practice, Tewes has worked as an educator, lecturer, curator and activist.