One of our more recent additions to the CAMP roster, Michael Sylvan Robinson has led a very exciting life as an artist as of late. We wanted to celebrate his work being featured in the Museum of Art & Design in New York. Sylvan had the chance to design the Met Gala outfit for none other than renowned theater producer and LGBTQ activist Jordan Roth. That outfit is now on display at the MAD Museum until June 30th, where you can see where Sylvan poured his heart and soul into for this stunning unique display.
Currently on view in the Museum’s lobby, Identity Is… was created for multi-faceted creator, tastemaker, and theater impresario Jordan Roth to wear at The Metropolitan Museum's Costume Institute Gala in 2021. A maximalist composition in which identity is a multifaceted creative act, the coat and its sweeping train are crafted from a textile collage of elaborately patterned fabric overworked with labor-intensive machine and handstitched beadwork. Layers of queer imagery and poetic text fragments are key elements in the work of the artist Michael Sylvan Robinson, who says “[they]… name intentions, offer reminders of the fragility of our world, and provoke a call to healing, to action, to remembrance.”
"Each garment is constructed from a textile collage layered with imagery that is Queer, and of the wild, but also inspired by the urban settings of my home landscape; hand-stenciled poetic text fragments printed on the clothes name intentions, offer reminders of the fragility of our world, and provoke a call to healing, to action, to remembrance."
- Michael Sylvan Robinson
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April 10, 2024
