This website is a work in progress.
The Tiger and the Spigot consider the Stars
Site-responsive installation at the Visual Arts Center (V.A.C.)
Drawing, Paintings, Prints, Interactive sculptures, Performance ephemera, and documentation.
Acceleration without Arrival
April 18th - May 10th, 2025
A flower
Camcorder footage
a harmonica
a megaphone,
and Larry Mitchell's The Faggots & Their Friends Between Revolutions
Photo documentation by Alex Boschenstein
The Tiger
Dubious bodies of water, 2024
Gouache on paper
The Tiger and the Spigot consider the Stars
16 hours of rehearsal and three 45-minute public performances,
Presented as part of the UT Dance and Theater's Cohen New Work's Festival 2025
With the support of the
In collaboration with Leo Briggs
with Venese Alcantar, Sofie Cardinal, Angel Blanco, Emily Heath, Aída Hernandez-Reyes, Sam Mandelbaum, Micah Senter, Katherine Vaughn, and Joshua Winn
On a patch of grass, behind the Winship Drama Building
collection of weapons found in the empty lot next to my house, sticks, metal, twine, colored pencils on rocks, paper, and a fly, 2022
nowhere, hand-sewn quilt, 2021
about
Javier Robelo (b.2000) is multidisciplinary artist from Managua, Nicaragua. He makes drawings, prints, sculptures, costumes, and performances that excavate and celebrate queer feeling. Using a cartoon-like figurative style, he abstracts personal experiences into the essence of being and being with others. The distressed yet playful characters inhabiting his work bend over, twist, and stumble; they melt into each other, dissolve into the landscape, and are weathered by time. Across mediums, Javier finds beauty in the pathetic, courage in vulnerability, and liberation in feeling out-of-place.
Javier received his BA in Art History and Studio Art from Williams College and is pursuing an MFA in Printmaking and Sculpture from the University of Texas at Austin. He has exhibited his work at the Lichtenstein Center for the Arts (Pittsfield, MA), The Arts Center of the Capital Region (Troy, NY), The Williams College Museum of Art (Williamstown, MA), The Joseph Gross Gallery at the University of Arizona (Tucson, AZ), and the Visual Arts Center (Austin, TX).
