Robin Grebe
Robin Grebe received her BFA in Ceramics from the Massachusetts College of Art and her MFA in Ceramics/Glass from the Tyler School of Art, Massachusetts. She has been instructor at Rhode Island School of Design and the Pilchuck School.
Grebe uses cast glass, ceramic glazes, and transparent enamels to create her monolithic and allegorical human forms. Originally inspired by Greek cycladic fertility goddesses, Grebe’s sculptures seem both fragile and strong. To her, they illustrate the paradoxes of human life.
Grebe’s work has been shown in Europe and the United States and can be found in many private and public connections worldwide, including the Cleveland Museum of Art, the Detroit Institute of Arts, the Corning Museum of Glass, and the Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art in Tokyo.
Racine Art Museum, Racine, WI 2011
Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal, Canada 2009
Lowe Museum of Art, University of Miami, Coral Gables, Florida 2008
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA 2007
Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, Montgomery, AL 2007
Fuller Craft Museum, Brockton, MA 2006
National Liberty Museum, Philadelphia, PA 2000
DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, Lincoln, MA 1999
Charles A. Wustum Museum, Racine, WI 1998
J.B. Speed Art Museum, Louisville, KY 1993
Detroit Institute of Art, David Jacob Chordorkoff Collection,
Detroit, MI 1991
Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, NY 1987
Heller Gallery, N.Y., N.Y. 1990,1992,1994,1997,2000,2003,2007,2009
Habatat Gallery, Detroit, Michigan 1990,1992.1996,1998
Habatat Gallery, Boca Raton, Florida 1998
Habatat Gallery, Chicago, Illinois 2001
Riley Hawk Gallery, Cleveland, Ohio 1999
Heller Gallery, Palm Beach, Florida 1993,1995
Helander Gallery, Palm Beach, Florida 1992
Sanske Gallery, Zurich, Switzerland 1991
Clark Gallery, Lincoln, Massachusetts 1989,1993
Anne O’Brien Gallery, Washington, D.C. 1989
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS________________________________________________
All About Seven, Cape Cod Museum of Fine Arts, Dennis, Massachusetts 2014
Shy Boy, She Devil and Isis, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts 2007
Glass, Berkshire Art Museum, Pittsfield, Massachusetts 2003
Millennium Glass, Kentucky Art and Craft Gallery 2000
Cleveland Glass, Cleveland Museum of Art 1997
Warm Glass, Tucson Museum of Art, 1997
Six Major Artists, Gallery Naga, Boston, MA 1996
Tell Me a Story, Taft Museum of Art, Cincinnati, Ohio 1994
Two Person Show, Dorothy Weiss Gallery, San Francisco, CA 1993
International Exhibition of Contemporary Glass, Rouen, France 1992
Glass from Ancient Craft to Contemporary Art,
The Morris Museum, Morristown, NJ 1992
The Sculptural Object, Clark Galley, Lincoln, MA 1992
World Glass Now ‘91, Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art, Sapporo, Japan 1991
History of Glass, Lyman Allan Museum, New London, CT 1989
World Glass Now ’88, Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art, Sapporo , Japan 1988