We at CAMP are glad to highlight our artist, Michael Sylvan Robinson being featured in Christie's 10 LGBTQIA+ exhibitions and festivals to see this summer!
Sylvan's portion is below, but if you'd like to read the full article and see the other exhibits being featured, click the button below:
Identity Is…Museum of Arts and Design, New York
Ongoing
The multidisciplinary maker Michael Sylvan Robinson has made a name for themself as a contemporary fiber artist. Having been exhibited in Rome and San Francisco, their wearable work Identity Is…, now on display in the lobby of the Museum of Arts and Design, was designed for the theater producer Jordan Roth to wear at the Metropolitan Museum’s Costume Institute Gala in 2021.
Installation view of Identity Is... at the Museum of Arts and Design, New York. Photo by Jenna Bascom; courtesy of the Museum of Arts and Design
Entirely maximalist, the gown employs a tapestry of beadwork and patterned fabric to embolden fragments of text and queer imagery, reminding viewers, in Robinson’s words, ‘of the fragility of our world,’ while provoking ‘a call to healing, to action, to remembrance.’
