
Lori Keith Robinson
Known for her strong, color-enriched paintings, Lori Keith Robinson found her artistic passion when she began plein air painting and took her first workshop with Camille Przewodek in 2005. She immediately was hooked and painted on location everyday for fifteen months straight, even in the 100º days of August in Savannah. She feels she grew the most and her true personal style emerged during those hard-worked days. There is a romantic storytelling quality to her work that is loved by her collectors. She’s won numerous “Best of Shows”, as well as taught, judged and demonstrated for many plein air events.
Biography
Born: 1963, North Carolina
AWARDS:
2024 Georgia Color, Juried Plein Air Art Competition, Quick Paint 3rd Place, Savannah GA
2024 Modern Impressionist Salon Top 20 Paintings, Judge – Marc Hanson, October/November
2024 Plein Air Magazine’s Plein Air Salon Top 100 Finalist, Judge – Kathie Odom, September 2024
2024 Plein Air Magazine’s Plein Air Salon Top 100 Finalist, Judge – Kathleen Dunphy, June 2024
2015 Best of Show, Savannah Plein Air Paint Out, Savannah GA
2014 Best of Show, Savannah Plein Air Paint Out, Savannah GA
2006 Best of Show – Paint the Town Plein Air Competition, Alla Prima Fine Art, St. Petersburg, FL
EVENTS:
2025 Featured Artist, North Carolina Plein Air Art Festival, New Bern NC
2025 American Impressionist Society 9th Annual Impressions: Small Works Showcase, Fallbrook CA
2024 Featured Artist, Georgia Color, Juried Plein Air Art Competition, Savannah GA
2024 Instructor, Landings Art Association Workshop, Savannah GA
2018 Instructor, Bonaventure Painting Workshop, Telfair Museum, Savannah GA
2008 Instructor, Plein Air Workshop – Ogeechee River, Bulloch Co. GA
2007 Instructor, Plein Air Workshop – Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah GA
2007 Telfair Art Fair Juried Competition, Telfair Museum of Art, Savannah GA
2006 Telfair Art Fair Juried Competition, Telfair Museum of Art, Savannah GA
2006 Paint the Town — Juried Invitational Plein Air Event — Alla Prima Fine Art, St Petersburg FL
2006 Paint NC — Juried Invitational Plein Air Event — Germanton Gallery, Germanton NC
2005 Plein Air Lecture and Demonstration — Landings Art Association, Savannah GA
2005 Charleston Fine Art Dealers Association Paint Out, Charleston SC
2005 OPA National Paint Out, Co-host, Savannah GA
2005 First Annual Chroma Gallery Paint Out, Co-host, Savannah GA
2005 Savannah Plein Air Group — Signature Member, Savannah GA
EXHIBITIONS:
2015 Plein Air Savannah Exhibition, Jepson Museum, Savannah GA
2012 Lori Keith Robinson -a Thank You – Hospice Show, Hospice Savannah Art Gallery, Savannah GA
2011 Fall Hop Chroma Gallery Group Exhibition, Chroma Gallery, Savannah GA
2010 New Works, Chroma Gallery Group Exhibition, Chroma Gallery, Savannah GA
2009 Chromatic Notes – Group Exhibition, Chroma Gallery, Savannah GA
2008 Lori Keith Robinson New Works – Solo Exhibition, Fogle Fine Art, Jacksonville FL
2008 Nighthawk Sweetgrass, Dual Exhibition, Chroma Gallery, Savannah GA
2007 East Meets West – Group Exhibition, Alla Prima Fine Art, St. Petersburg FL
2006 Lowcountry Light – Solo Exhibition, Fogle Fine Art, Jacksonville FL
2005 Lori Keith Robinson – Solo Exhibition, Palmetto Bluff Gallery, Bluffton, SC
2004 New Lowcountry Paintings — Solo Exhibition, Averitt Center for the Arts, Statesboro, GA
2004 Light of the Lowcountry: 2004 — Solo Exhibition, Art Beat Gallery, Louisville KY
2003 LOJA, Collaborative Works, Jazz’d, Savannah GA
2003 LKR@JEA 2003, JEA Gallery, Savannah GA
2002 Conversations w/Color — Solo Exhibition, JEA Gallery, Savannah GA
2002 Light of the Lowcountry – Solo Exhibition, Art Beat Gallery, Louisville KY
2002 Arrangements – Savannah Onstage Arts Festival Exhibition, Savannah GA
2001 Pieces for Piano – Savannah Onstage Arts Festival Exhibition, Savannah GA
2000 Low Tide, High Color — Solo Exhibition, JEA Gallery, Savannah GA
1999 Vistas and Vignettes — Solo Exhibition, City Market Gallery, Savannah GA
EDUCATION:
Propes Scholarship, Post Graduate Studies, Savannah College of Art and Design
Summa Cum Laude, University of North Carolina at Pembroke
Plein Air Studies – Kevin Macpherson
Plein Air Studies – Camille Przewodek
Plein Air Studies – Susan Sarback
Plein Air Studies — Ken Auster
Plein Air Studies — PAPA Annual workshop
GRANTS:
1996 North Carolina Arts Council Emerging Artist Grant recipient, Raleigh NC
1996 Bladen County Arts Council Grant recipient, Elizabethtown NC
PUBLICATIONS:
Savannah Now, Oct 2024
South Magazine, May 2010
Savannah Morning News, April 2006
Skirt Magazine, March 2005
Savannah Magazine “Women in Business”, 2004
Coastal Antiques & Art, Cover June 2004
Savannah Morning News, Oct 6,2002
Coastal Antiques and Art, January 2001
TravelHost Spotlight, Aug/Oct 2001
TravelHost Spotlight, Dec2000/Feb 2001
Savannah Morning News, July 1999
SELECTED COLLECTIONS:
Savannah Economic Development Association, Savannah GA
Georgia Southern University, Statesboro GA
Baptist Medical Center South, Jacksonville FL
Anderson Cancer Institute, Savannah GA
The Beach Company, Charleston SC
His Majesty Otumfuo Osei Tutu, The Royal King of Ghana, Ghana Africa
HealthSouth, Birmingham, AL
Memorial Health University Medical Hospital, Savannah GA
South University, Savannah GA
REPRESENTATION:
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Artist Statement
I have no choice but to create art. When the chaos of life threatens to engulf me, art is my stillness, my meditation, my bliss. It’s just me and my scene and the story I’m trying to tell. But, what completes the process for me is sharing it. To see what I consider my gift, become a joy for others fills me with happiness.