Tasha Robbins: An Angel Alphabet

An Angel Alphabet is a full-color paperback edition featuring a serial work of 22 paintings by Tasha Robbins visually depicting the Hebrew Alphabet Malachim in Cornelius Agrippa's Angelic Script. Edited and designed by Eliot Cardinaux. Introduction by George Scrivani. Notes and commentaries by the artist. 60 pages.

"In Tasha Robbins' pictures you can see that, as Franz Kline said of Barnett Newman, she paints the way she thinks painting ought to be. Her paintings have what might be considered the ordinary virtues of serious art: openhanded, no-fuss technique; high-energy surface; gentle humor; and a deep curiosity about the world and its mysteries, so that each new work in turn brings with it a special shock of fresh revelation." 

  —Bill Berkson

"In these visual meditations Tasha leap-frogs the Hebrew Alphabet Malachim into a dream-like vocabulary." 

  —Neeli Cherkovski

"She doesn't paint them, she poems them."

  —Gregory Corso

"Tasha Robbins is a street-corner seer in love with the beautiful mess people live. Whether her subjects are local characters or fetishized things, she paints into them something like sentience: They are so present as to constitute new mysteries of the actual. Invariably she finds the elemental line, and her brush restores revelation to the ordinary."

  —Aaron Shurin

"The eyes are everywhere, innocent, staring. Looking out of everything, inside us."

  —George Scrivani

"Post-modern American naive."

  —Herbert Kearney