By Tiffany Kellogg
A local artist who’s been involved in art since she was a little girl, had a change of style when she was hit by an 18-wheeler truck.
Chary L. Robbins is one of many local artists who show off their talent every Sunday at the Burchfield-Penney Art Center www.burchfield-penney.org located in Rockwell Hall www.buffalostate.edu/directions.xml at Buffalo State College.
Robbins got her first scholarship from the Albright-Knox at age four.
“I would come home with pages and pages of perfectly formed “C’s” and my mother just assumed that I was practicing my name,” she said.
Then came the accident with the truck.
“Three years ago I had a change of life and started painting canvas,” Robbins said. “It was from completely opposite ends of the spectrum.”
She calls her older work more functional than the canvas paintings she does now. She has 14 pieces at Planned Parenthood www.ppbec.org/locations.aspx on Amherst at Main Street.
Julie Ann Davis, museum store manager for the Burchfield-Penney Art Center, showcases local artists and their work.
“The local artists and I have a give and take relationship. They are so happy to get the extra publicity,” Davis said.
Most of Robbins paintings now stem from emotional happenings that were caused by the accident, leaving her family surprised that she would sell her work after she had gotten so attached to it.
“For Chary’s show, she mailed out 40 invitations hoping that it would bring in a lot of people,” Davis said. “The people that came were people that hadn’t been there in years or had never been there at all.”
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Tiffany Kellogg can be contacted at daisygrl2327@yahoo.com
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Artworks by Chary L. Robbins
