
Biography
Robin Melton Jordan was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and grew up in Kentucky and North Carolina. She relocated to New York City, where she studied at The Art Student's League, Sculpture Center, and Pratt Institute.
Jordan's primary studio is in Cobble Hill, Brooklyn but she also welds steel in a Manhattan studio. No matter what medium she chooses, a lyrical movement and joy is evident in her work. Her steel sculpture is inspired by nocturnal line drawings; her sculpture and paintings while rooted in the vernacular art of the South, are inspired by the urban landscape and push the found object tradition into the 21st century through her use of studio scraps, urban discards, and post-consumer detritus.
Robin will be showing a sculpture in the exhibition, Petroleum Paradox: Fro Better or For Worse, a collaboration between The Women's Caucus and Denise Bibro Fine Art, May 24 to June 23, 2012. Jordan has most recently shown work in Idle Time/Busy Mind at NURTUREart, Brooklyn, NY and Birthday at the Pelham Art Center, Pelham, NY (2010). In 2011, Jordan had a solo exhibition, Scrappy, at the Chrystoph Marten Salon, in Manhattan.