Christopher Robin Duncan @ Rebecca Camacho Presents

Rebecca Camacho Presents is pleased to share a capsule exhibition of new works by gallery artist Christopher Robin Duncan, now installed in our viewing room.

Continuing to explore themes of time and seasons and their interplay with interplanetary bodies,
Duncan presents four of his signature time-based exposure paintings.

Whereas in past works Duncan would intervene on exposed surfaces through paint or contrasting patchwork, within these newest canvases marks wrought from the exposure of the sun and elements are largely left unchanged. Through intentional deconstruction and reconfiguration, Duncan assembles the fabrics, playing with surface tension and dynamic, resulting in elegantly restrained canvases defined by slight shifts and fine details. Resembling vast ethereal scapes in sumptuous fields of turquoise, midnight blue and dawn grey, there is a quietude in the work; interrupted subtly with a vibrant hit of red fabric, a contrast sewn into the corner of one piece or the side edge of another.

Alongside these stretched paintings are a debut series of glazed stoneware that represent a new and highly generative direction for the artist. Fully enclosed hollow ceramic spheres, akin to moons, embedded with bits of clay, allow the orbs to double as a musical shaker, once again bridging various components of Duncan’s art practice from visual expression to sound performance to his deep engagement with the passage of time and celestial bodies. The textured facade of the ceramic forms is a delight of textures, material and color play as pools of milky glaze melt into deep translucent reds and subtle moss greens achieved by adding sea glass in the firing process.

About the Artist

Christopher Robin Duncan (b. 1974, Perth Amboy, NJ) lives and works in Oakland, California. Duncan’s practice is interdisciplinary, incorporating painting, sculpture, sound, and performance. His work is attuned to the rhythms and passages of time and representative of the repetitive cycles that inform our lives.

He received his BFA from the California College of Arts and Crafts in 2003 and his MFA from Stanford University in 2013. He has had solo
exhibitions at Pt. 2 Gallery, Oakland, CA (2024); Rebecca Camacho Presents, San Francisco, CA (2023; 2020); Halsey McKay Gallery, East
Hampton, NY (2022; 2019; 2016); Eighteen Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark (2020); Human Resources, Los Angeles, CA (2018); and
Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito, CA (2016); amongst others. His work has been included in group exhibitions at the Marjorie Barrick
Museum of Art, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, NV (2025); The Wattis Institute, California College of Arts, San Francisco, CA (2024); San
Francisco State University Fine Arts Gallery (2022); Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, Omaha, NE (2019); Susan Inglett Gallery, New York,
NY (2018); the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA) (2018); and the San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery, San Francisco,
CA (2018); amongst others.

Duncan has been in residence at the Space Program, San Francisco (2023); Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito (2015); ACRE, Steuben
(2012); University of Kansas, Lawrence (2012); and Kala Institute, Berkeley (2010) amongst others.

Duncan’s work is in the collection of the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley CA; Jaffe Book Arts Collection, Boca Raton
FL; Kemper Art Museum, St. Louis MO; Marjorie Barrick Museum of Art, University of Nevada, Las Vegas; The Museum of Modern Art, New York
NY; and San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco CA.