Featured Artist: Robin Pedrero

Artist Statement

I respond to what catches my eyes and heart using colors, shapes and lines. I desire to capture simple pleasures, wind in the trees, atmospheric reflections, people and places around the world. I personify nature through color and movement evoking moods of transition, strength, and serenity. I use my fingers of both hands to blend pastels and sculpt form through layering pigment; pastel being one of the purest pigments. As I work the images can be unexpected, some terrains flow on to the paper gathered from memories, symbolically formed to portray ubiquitous scenes while some works are tangible locations. When I see smaller images like faces, animals, and cities within works in progress sometimes I enhance them to share my perceptions. I have always been enticed by faces and try not to stare, but as an artist sometimes I am caught in the beauty of the moment. I explore characters, various time periods, and human relationships through portraiture. I delight to capture a likeness but more to create a piece of art that is emotive and will stand through time. Simply smudges of color. What do you see?

Bio

Robin Pedrero began fine art studies at the age of thirteen. She rode her bike where Foxwoods casino now sits near her hometown of Norwich, CT. Her early exhibitions began at The Mystic Art Association, the seaport town where she met Julia Roberts and cast during the filming of “Mystic Pizza”. Acknowledged for her luminous and captivating work Pedrero has since become an established award winning artist; published in magazines, newspapers, documentaries, and news broadcasts. Jeffrey Spalding now CEO and President for Glenbow Museum, Canada judged her work best of show with a “magical use of color” as Director of the Appleton Museum in Ocala Florida. The PSA after Pedrero’s signature is a privilege of elected signature members of the Pastel Society of America. Travel and family play a large role in her compositions; her art is a visual journey. Collected worldwide her works are in private and corporate collections.  She is represented by several galleries in America. Events and works in progress are posted on You Tube, blog, facebook and twitter. Pedrero works from her home studio in Longwood Florida, enjoying the company of her dog Max.

Representation

Celebrations Gallery
Pomfret, CT

Galeria Tonantzin
San Juan Bautista, CA

Juxtapose Gallery, New Jersey

Wolfe Gallery
DeLand FL

Selected and most recent exhibits

• “Celebrating Citrus” Comma Gallery, Orlando, FL 2009
• “The Art of Chrome and Leather VI” , Museum of Florida Art, Deland FL 2009
• “The Canvas Project” Art House Gallery Atlanta, GA 2008
• The Florida Artist Registry Member Exhibit, Gallery at Avalon Island, Orlando, FL 2008
• “Beyond Geppetto: Revisited!” The Gallery at Avalon Island, Orlando, FL 2008
• “LOVE WORKS” City Arts Factory, Orlando, FL 2008  see You Tube 2008
• “pARTicipation”, Maitland Center for the Arts, Maitland, FL 2008

• Robin Maria Pedrero & Elizabeth St. Hilaire Nelson, Seminole Community College, Sanford, FL 2008
• Katharine Butler Gallery, Sarasota  FL 2008
• “Colorscapes,” Steinway Piano Gallery, Altamonte Springs, FL  2008
• COWS At COMMA: Celebrating the Artistry of the Bovine, Comma Gallery, Orlando FL 2008
• Bay Two at Mills Park, Orlando, FL 2008
• Beyond Gepetto, First Thursdday, Orlando Museum of Art, Orlando, FL 2008
• Pedrero, Ela Steel and Vicki Jones, Dandelion Communitea Gallery, Orlando, FL 2008
• “AS FAR AS THE EYE CAN SEE: THE LANDSCAPE IN PERSPECTIVE”, Comma Gallery, Orlando, FL  2008
• The Gallery at Avalon Island Duo Exhibition “Chalk,” Paper, Scissors 2007Gallery on First 211 E First St.  Sanford, Florida (Named one of 20 essential galleries in the nation by “Go” magazine AirTran) 2005 – 2007
• The Maitland Art Center “pARTicipation” 2007
• The ORLANDO OPERA GUILD Designers Showhouse 2006
• Historic Sanford Trust Holiday Tour of Homes 2006
• Lake Mary Heathrow Festival of the Arts 2006 poster artist and second place award
• Golden Rule Gala 2005
• Lake Mary Heathrow Festival of the Arts 2005 second place award
• Orlando Museum of Art Artist of the Month for August 2004
• 2004 grant from United Arts of Florida to enhance her painting series
• 2004 Best of Show for “House of Pears” in the traveling WCAFL exhibit “A Common Bond”
• 2004 Robb and Stuckys

Corporate Collections

• Consumer Connections, Apopka, FL
• Galleries/Exhibitions
• Appleton Museum of Art,  Ocala, FL
• The Gallery at Avalon Island, Orlando FL
• Celebrations Gallery, Pomfret, CT
• City Arts Factory, Orlando FL
• The Maitland Art Center, Maitland, FL
• COMMA gallery, Orlando, FL
• Galeria Tonantzin, San Juan Bautista, CA
• Bay Two at Mills Park, Orlando, FL
• Beth’s Friends, Sanford FL
• Alice Jenkins Gallery, Winter Park  FL
• Saks Galleries, Cherry Creek Gallery Denver Colorado
• Robb and Stuckys Altamonte Florida
• Mystic Art Association Connecticut
• Helen Jones Gallery, Sacramento, CA
• Brick City Center for the Arts Ocala Florida
• Thomas Center Gallery, Gainesville.
• Osceola Center for the Arts Florida
• Steinway Galleries, Altamonte, Florida
• Art House, Casselberry Florida
• Dandelion Communitea Cafe Gallery, Orlando Florida
• Leslie Boyd Gallery Winter Park Florida
• Cafe Tu Tu Tangos, I Drive Orlando Florida
• Little Art Studio, Kissimmee Florida
• Dicken’s Read, Mount Dora Florida
• All That Art, Ocala, Florida
• Orange County Library Apopka Florida
• Casselberry City Hall Florida
• Orlando Visual Artists League Florida
• Winter Park Public Library
• Central Florida Community College
• Ocala Art and Frame
• The Paddock Gallery Ocala Florida
• Ocala Public Library Florida
• Blue Heron Gallery Ocala Florida
• Open Windows Studio Gallery, Florida
• Catalyst Gallery Sanford, Florida
• Gallery on First Sanford, Florida
• Platform Florida #6 Tigers Stadium Lakeland, Florida

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