Joseph Robinson

Joseph Robinson is a visionary artist with a unique background and an authentic, contemporary direction. Inspired by the works of Frank Lloyd Wright, at the age of thirteen he began studies in architecture and art in Wisconsin. Robinson majored in architecture at the University of California at Berkeley where he thrived in this intellectual environment with brilliant thinkers and world-class research facilities. He received his Bachelor of Architecture Degree in December 1971. Acknowledging Robinson’s pioneering work, the University took the unusual step of awarding him simultaneous teaching assistantships in both the Art and Architecture Departments. In the Architecture and City Planning Departments, his mentor Professor Richard Meier, inspired him to design with a knowledgeable perspective of global problem solving. In the Fine Art Department, Robinson shot an experimental film, Sunstream (1970), later titled Starchild (1982), using innovative special visual effects. Subsequently, he combined his interest in architecture with his passion for filmmaking in designing a visionary world city for a screenplay titled Auratopia, which also involved hundreds of fine art drawings and paintings. More recently, he created abstract art using the camera, film and light as his media. This work has produced a series of light paintings titled “Windows of the Universe.”