ROBYN JOHNSON-ROSS

My background is in fine and applied arts (a handsome resume of gallery shows and an NEA grant; extensive published writing on art; commercial art, primarily illustration, for the Washington Post and myriad other local and national publications). One or two years ago, as the art world became more and more politicized and image conscious, I started to loose interest in the gallery and museum scene. After some depression about all of this, I began to think about computer art for the same reason that many artists have turned to the computer: it is the visual language of the future. It is remunerative. With access to Windows NT, I started to learn Photoshop in November of `98, and now with a Mac OS, am beginning to master Adobe Illustrator. I will ofcourse finish the inevitable triad with Quark Express or Pagemaker, and then go directly into animation, which is my real goal. At present I have a huge portfolio of computer generated images, since I can only learn processes and techniques by actually employing them. And to my happy surprise, I love the work: it satisfies my intellectual and emotional needs equally. As the logic of the computer has become more natural to me, it becomes a kind of `other`, which is to say, an inherently interesting persona.

selection of digital art