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Beth Robinson | Art Doll Sculptor

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Sculpting macabre Strange Dolls since 2003.
📍St. Louis, MO
Work currently available through @curioartgallery | @poetictigergallery | @citymuseum

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Isn't this beautifully haunting? 🖤

“The Regnant” by @strangedolls , featured in our show “The Coven”, is available!

Enter the world of “The Coven” and discover the full collection of dark and mysterious works on our website. ☺️

https://www.curiogaleria.com/category/thecoven

Payment plans can be arranged upon request.
For any questions about this piece, feel free to send us a message or email!

#thecoven #artgallery #artshow #artcollector #spookyseason

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So happy to be apart of Beautifully Scary IV! Check out the local art and save the date 😉

I may not be able to be there in person myself but my piece “Scorpion’s Nightshade’s Off” will be hanging at Say Art Studio’s in Pacific 🖼️

#stlart #stlartists #sayartstudio #stllocalartist #stipplingart

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A peek into the Wolpertinger exhibit with a few of my favorite things from the exhibit and the Dead Things room.

Also. I honest to god thought I was having An Experience the night of the opening when I saw unusual lights in the sky. Turns out it was just nighttime sky divers.

Wolpertinger: Nature and the Uncanny
@citymuseum / Buffalo bob’s, 3rd floor
Exhibition on view until November 1st 2026.
Thanks so much to @crankyyellow for putting this exhibit together!

#citymuseumstl #stlartists #oddities #wolpertinger

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Schlafly Art Outside was a blast as always! This is one event I look forward to all year, the Maplewood crowd is so great 🥰

Blown away by the local talent our city has, and LOVED getting to challenge myself to create a piece as part of @molliechounard Hidden Worlds collaborative exhibit, everyone knocked it out of the park!!

Thank you to @schlaflybottleworks for hosting, everyone who came out to say hi, and to all the artists who were such a joy to hang with all weekend even if we were sweating our butts off in this heat💜

(Also special thanks to @theseeyesstl for swooping in like a literal fairy godfather with a cold bottle of water and disappearing into the night like the mysterious superhero you are 😂 I appreciate you so much.

@itz_dabunny and her amazing mama stopped by and made my day! She is one of my very first collectors of my mini paintings and reminds me so much of a younger me 💜

Managed to wrangle a surprising amount of us four a group pic, including @solkatt_creations who is a legend and totally *not* photoshopped in 😂

Managed to wrangle a surprising amount of us four a group pic, including @solkatt_creations who is a legend and totally *not* photoshopped in 😂

Managed to wrangle a surprising amount of us four a group pic, including @solkatt_creations who is a legend and totally *not* photoshopped in 😂

So excited about these bird skull earrings by @raven.artist18

I think they’re gonna go perfectly with my @strangedolls necklace 😍💀

Said goodbye to two of my favorite larger paintings that have been waiting to find their forever home and I’m so happy 💜

Said goodbye to two of my favorite larger paintings that have been waiting to find their forever home and I’m so happy 💜

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#arthop #southendarthop #southendarthop2026

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“Beautifully Scary IV” Call For Dark Art Deadline is Sunday September 27, 2026 at 11:59CST.
Submit at https://sayartstudios.com/pages/calls.html

Exhibition opening is Saturday October 17th from 6-9PM.

Welcome and thank you to our guest judge, Beth Robinson, for agreeing to select the award recipients for this lovely dark art event!

Beth Robinson is a sculptor and mixed-media artist who has worked under the name Strange Dolls since 2003. Her figurative work is exhibited and held in private collections internationally and has appeared in university-level sculpture textbooks and numerous art and pop-culture publications, most recently at Duane Reed Gallery in St. Louis, MO.

Her advocacy for the dark art community is longstanding, and she has always looked for ways to provide opportunities for and shine light on artists working in the fringes and tackling uncomfortable themes. For ten years she curated and ran the annual “Art of Horror” event at S.P.A.C.E. Gallery in Vermont, alongside invitational shows like “Conjuring, She Rises,” a feminist exhibition held on the anniversary of the Salem Witch Trials, and “Husk,” an exploration of parasitic relationships. More recently she curated “Broken Hearts” in Missouri and judged the mixed-media exhibition “It’s All In The Mix” at Artisans in the Loop.

She maintains a regular studio practice in Saint Louis, Missouri with her trusty companion, a taxidermy coyote named Toby. You can find her work online at www.strangedolls.net. @strangedolls

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🎨 Artist Spotlight: Beth Robinson 🎨

To create my Strange Dolls, I sculpt the dolls using polymer clay or air-dry clays and then
design and sew the outfits using fabrics with history. I incorporate unusual organic
materials into my creations, including human hair, teeth, sweet gum, snakeskin, and bones
- elements that were once living or bear visible traces of transformation.

Dolls are icons of perfection, innocence, and control. Through Strange Dolls, I challenge
those standards by creating “dolls” that are unconventional, iconoclastic, and, decidedly,
not perfect. Each one is a confrontation between social expectation and defiance, between what we show the world and what we conceal.

Beth Robinson is a self-taught sculptor and mixed-media artist who began creating her Strange Dolls in 2003. What started as an experiment in polymer clay quickly evolved into a signature body of work that merges sculpting, painting, and sewing into expressive, handcrafted art dolls.

Her Strange Dolls have attracted a worldwide following and are held in private collections from New York to Japan. Robinson’s work has been featured in numerous art and pop-culture publications, as well as in radio, podcasts, television, and film.

After two decades in Burlington, Vermont, Robinson relocated to St. Louis, Missouri, where she continues to expand her distinctive practice. Her recent work can be seen at Say Art Studios – The Gallery at 123 in Pacific, MO, and online at www.strangedolls.net.

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Friday night was magical! A night I'll never forget.
Thank you @houskagallery for showing 7 of my works in the Summer Group Show. Thank you all who came out and supported 🥰

The Small Works Invitational at Duane Reed across the street was also an amazing show!! It was awesome to see so many of my art friends and their pieces hanging there!

I had to take photos from people because I took a total of 3 photos. Also, one of my pieces sold on opening night to a good friend of mine 🥰 and a special thanks to @nwelbornpapercuts for the bouquets! How thoughtful ❤️🏵

#amelacikotaart #stlevents #abstractart #openingnight #stlartists

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Friday night at Duane Reed Gallery was PERFECTION! Fabulous turnout…. AND MY PIECE SOLD! Thank you to Todd Alan, you made my night, sir!!😁💜 Quynn & Ethan hung a gorgeous install, as always. Congrats to all the participating artists! The exhibition will be on view til August 22nd. Pop in! @reedgallery @kreneeart @amelacikotaart #houskagallery #stlouisgallery #centralwestendstl

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I first showed my art in a gallery in 2023, not really knowing what I was doing, where I wanted to go, or even how to properly wire a painting. Fast forward to now, and having my art in the front window of @reedgallery , on the same walls as artists who have shown in the Met, the Smithsonian..really feels like a pinch me moment!

And as cheesy as it sounds that’s really secondary to the amazing friends I’ve found within the STL art community. You’re only as good as the company you keep and I’m so grateful to be surrounded by those that constantly inspire me, motivate me and encourage me. Seeing so much talent lined up in one space makes me so proud of our lil city.

Thank you so much @quynndouglasdale Ethan and Duane for having me and for being so great to work with. The curation and organization of this show was immaculate, and no small feat to be sure!!

Congratulations to everyone in the show and thank you to those who came out to support (special thanks to @nwelbornpapercuts for the beautiful flower bouquet, I could have cried I adore you!!!)

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Thanks to everyone who came out to support all of the artists during Let Them Eat Art on Friday night! Thank you to @corriedawnstyle of @goldieshairwardrobe for hosting me again! I was so thankful to be inside, dry, with air conditioning before the rain rolled in and cut the event short. SPECIAL THANKS to Tracey Morgan & the entire Maplewood team for making this event possible every year! Can’t wait to do it again next year. :)

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Been taking a little break from posting while working on some fun stuff behind the scenes but getting SO excited to be participating in the @reedgallery Small Works Invitational this year! 🤩

Looking at the STELLAR lineup I can’t wait to see what everyone comes up with!!

Opening July 24th 💜

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