Strange Dolls by Beth Robinson

www.strangedolls.net

Beth Robinson, artist-in residence on the fourth floor of the Firehouse Center for the Visual Arts on Church Street in Burlington from June to July 24th, 2010.

These odd dolls are not something you will find in a toy store. They are hardly something you would buy for a child. They are misproportioned, strangely dressed, and they have a character uniquely their own. Each doll is entirely hand made using polymer clays, vintage fabrics, acrylic paint, and sometimes real human hair or teeth. Each piece is one of a kind. Beth Robinson is a self taught artist who has been living in Vermont for 15 years. While she has dabbled in a variety of mediums, it was the discovery of polymer clay that allowed her to combine her interests in design, sewing, sculpting, and painting and gave her a concrete foundation of expression in the form of Strange Dolls.
Since 2003 she has been creating macabre and grotesque characters in clay for collectors across the globe. She is currently represented in Berlin/NYC/London by Strychnin Gallery. Robinson's dolls have been featured in the magazines: Art Doll Quarterly, SPIN, "Stuff" in the US, "Maxim UK" and "Maxim Hong Kong," "Rue Morgue" in Canada, "RIP" in Russia, and "Nordic Vision" in Norway.
"Now here's a doll May Canaday would make if she watched The Brothers Quay Collection while listening to Nightmare Picture Theatre and hadn't slept in a week. Weird, misshapen and tortured, these unusual handmade dolls are...definitely not for children, unless you want them to have nightmares." -Rue Morgue, 2005

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• Artist In-Residence
• creepy dolls

[julzabro]

Kewel!

[yellowroselola]

AWESOME!

[lisarayone]

while making these dolls and while they were in my company waiting for new homes I would have to keep them in a box with a lock. they are awesome, scary, beautiful in their own way and very very moving.

[PolymerClayJoJo]

Beautiful and kind of crazy- so I'm going to call these dolls, crazy beautiful! With the poetry reading in the background - pure genius- what a creative and effective way to achieve that air of freaky- deaky! Loved it.

[Spiritree41]

OMG I want the one thats sitting on the chair. I Want them all....!

[gujado555]

oh...wow

[gentle7ways7]

@smellycatwatching sorry it must have been the half a pound of sherbet lemon bon bons *.*

[smellycatwatching]

@gentle7ways7 english please? lol ^^

[gentle7ways7]

an extension of her morbidity in the way unleashed externally from her mind yet so gratifying to an outside observer

[irishoorah]

1:00 SCARED. THE. F@#$%. OUT. OF. ME.