Robert "Robot" Adams
What is your favorite art medium to work in, and why?
Join the Fight by Robot Adams
Puns. A quickly constructed quip is my highest form of art, but sometimes I work with Aerosol or glass, or found object, my body of work is as eclectic as the junk drawer.
When did you first figure out that art was important to you?
Ive always liked attention, and I'm not great at much else, I tried sport, but after a freak tennis accident where I lost my left earlobe, I haven't been back, I have yet to be injured making art; I often walk around with paint on my face, but that only hurts my dating life, no physical harm done.
Robot as Rutabaga Princess Robotica at the Kinetic Grand Championship
Who is your art mentor?
Ken Weiderman was an art, ceramics and drama teacher at MMS in 2004, he embraced my counter culture "degenerate" influence without putting them down, he would take the time to incorporate my interests: street art, popart, tattoo motifs, Drag Queens and Clubkids, into the lesson. He gave me my first copies of Juxtapose and High Fructose and encouraged me to create a mural with the school. At 12 years old I somehow convinced the school to allow me to take 3 period's of elective, just so I could spend more time in his class room. Being a child of the millennium never without the Internet I've been lucky enough to look up to and be influenced by artists from the world over, but this human connection has always stuck with me.
Finish this sentence: My art is my...
Chat up punchline. You know what they say, give a woman red roses, and they be dead in 3 days, but paint a woman's roses red, and... you'll be locked in a cage, held on trial and eventually lose your head.
What advice would you offer someone just beginning their exploration of their own artistic self?
“Cosmic Kitty” by Robot Adams
I want to preface all advice with a disclaimer: I'm an adult who calls himself Robot, Don't take advice from Robot. That being said, Try EVERYTHING, methods, medium, subject, style, and material. You don't need a degree to have a good time. Trial, observation, and instructional videos, are the same as school in my opinion, it's ART not Rocket Surgery.