Tony Robbin (born November 24, 1943, in
Washington, DC
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) is an
American artist and author, who works with painting, sculpture and computer visualizations.
He is considered part of the
Pattern and Decoration
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(P&D) art movement.
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Work
Robbin has had over 25 solo exhibitions of his painting and sculpture since his debut at the
Whitney Museum of American Art in 1974, and has been included in over 100
Robbin was granted a patent for the application of
quasicrystal
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geometry to architecture,
[Architectural body having a quasicrystal structure
] and has implemented this geometry for a large-scale architectural sculpture at the
Danish Technical University in
Kongens Lyngby,
Denmark
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, as well as one for the city of
Jacksonville
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,
Florida
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.
Robbin is the author of four books: ''Fourfield: Computers, Art, & the 4th Dimension'' (1992 ),
''Engineering A New Architecture'',
(1996),
''Shadows of Reality''
(2006) and ''Mood Swings A Painters Life''
(2011), an autobiography.
Robbin is a pioneer in the computer visualization of
four-dimensional geometry. Since 1981, his realtime rotation programs of four-dimensional figures have been useful for obtaining an intuitive feel for four-dimensional space, and quasicrystal space. The original
DOS
DOS is shorthand for the MS-DOS and IBM PC DOS family of operating systems.
DOS may also refer to:
Computing
* Data over signalling (DoS), multiplexing data onto a signalling channel
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and
Microsoft Windows versions are available for free download from his website. An Android live-wallpaper hypercube, rotating in 4-space, is available for free at the Android market, or on his official website. (see external links below)
In 2011 the
Orlando Museum of Art
Orlando () is a city in the U.S. state of Florida and is the county seat of Orange County. In Central Florida, it is the center of the Orlando metropolitan area, which had a population of 2,509,831, according to U.S. Census Bureau figures rele ...
organized a retrospective of Robbin's paintings and drawings.
The companion book ''Tony Robbin, A Retrospective'' is distributed by Hudson Hills Press.
Notes
References
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External links
Official siteReview of ''Shadows of Reality'' by David Ebony'' Hypercube live wall-paper for Android devices''
20th-century American painters
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American male painters
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Living people
1943 births
20th-century American sculptors
American male sculptors
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