Robin Huber

Robin Huber creates works that hover between document and dream. Working digitally, she integrates disparate imagery, tuning and distorting data through painted maps of light. Chromatic density, stark light, and bristling texture build charged visual fields in which the act of seeing becomes numinous. 

Huber was born in Apple Valley, a small town in the Mojave Desert, to an American father and a Japanese mother. She grew up among the arid mesas and coastal bluffs of California and the mountains and lakes of Northern Idaho, landscapes that shaped her attunement to the natural world. She studied drawing and painting with local artists, later receiving formal training at L’École des Arts de Braine-l’Alleud during a year in Belgium as a Rotary exchange student. She studied French literature and painting in Toulouse, France, and English literature and poetry writing at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo. She went on to doctoral work in cognitive anthropology at UC Irvine as a National Science Foundation fellow, investigating the mechanics of perception and meaning.

Huber spent over two decades in Los Angeles, working in design, animation, and post-production. She studied at Art Center at Night and the Los Angeles Academy of Figurative Arts, and with artists such as Glenn Vilppu, Charles Hu, and the Clayton Brothers. Her commercial work eventually centered on theatrical and television key art. The distillation of a film to a single charged image (hypersalient, mythic) was natural territory.

For Huber, the power of art lies in the density of its presence, activating the self through the recognition of shared aliveness. A fever dream. The emergence of form from a diffuse field. The restlessness of natural surfaces. The accumulation of charge when the future intrudes upon memory. In her fine art practice, artifice is not escapist fantasy, but a gesture toward the complicated, exquisite threshold between humanity and nature.

Huber’s work has been installed in public spaces of landmark properties including The Venetian and Resorts World Las Vegas.