The Corridor Project

Chris Robb is known for his contemporary, mixed-media paintings that examine ideas of media, culture, identity, memory, and family. His large-scale paintings explore subtle boundaries between control and chaos. Orderly grids and patterns occupy the same spaces as gestural scribbles, energized mark making, bold patterns, and elusive representational forms set against striking color combinations. Robb incorporates a wide range of materials in each piece, including oils, acrylics, monoprints, image transfers, stencils, and collage.

Born in Berea, Ohio to an art teacher mother and Scottish immigrant father, Chris Robb has lived in New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco and now works and resides in Winter Park, Florida. 

Chris graduated from the University of Central Florida in the spring of 1980 and immediately moved to the vibrant 80’s art scene of the Lower East Side of New York. The first shows he participated in were group shows at the iconic Club 57 along with his good friend Parker Dulany that also included work from Keith Haring, who curated the shows, Jean Michel Basquiat, Kenny Scharf, and many others.

While in New York, Chris also secured a grant from the Committee for the Visual Arts and had his first gallery show at PS 122.

Since then he has participated in group exhibitions and one man shows throughout his career and his paintings and works on paper are held in private and public collections throughout the US and France.

Chris is also a well known Creative Director and Art Director and he has films in the permanent archive at the Museum of Modern Art in New York and won Gold Lions at Cannes.

Emily Martinez’s (b. 1999 Queens, NY) work investigates fantasy and myth in fashion, religion, and gender. She combines these elements to empower the figure and create a form of escapism through fictional landscapes and narratives that foster a theatrical and heightened sense of reality. She is focused on elevating brown bodies in the tradition of painting through scale and color. Often drawing from Renaissance paintings or Mexican murals that depict Christian beliefs and extravagance, Emily subverts the motifs of these periods by using those themes to develop new worlds around spectacle, sexuality, womanhood, and magic. She received her BFA from the University of Central Florida in 2022 with a minor in Latin American Studies. Emily lives and works in Tampa, FL, and is currently an MFA candidate at the University of South Florida.

Leah Sandler is an interdisciplinary artist, writer and educator based in Central Florida. She graduated with a Bachelor of Arts from Rollins College in 2014 and a Master of Fine Arts from University of the Arts Philadelphia in 2017, and currently teaches digital art at Stetson University. She is the author of A Field Guide to Embodied Archiving, published by Burrow Press in 2021, and Notes from the Archivist, published by Bodiless Editions in 2024.