SPILT is honored to present Place Time- A Marronage, a new exhibition by artist Ellington Robinson, whose practice fuses history, memory, geography, and material culture into a deeply expressive visual language. Robinson, was born and raised between Washington, DC and the US Virgin Islands and creates work that navigates the layered terrain of identity and the psychological weight of place. His art is an inquiry into how we arrive physically, spiritually, and socioeconomically at our current coordinates in the world.

Ellington’s work is rooted in the historical and metaphysical dimensions of place. His compositions often map out geographies marked by railroad lines, colonial architecture, invented topographical mountainscapes of the maroons, the contrasting horizons of the inner‑city and the Caribbean Sea, and the visual threads that reflect the dual landscapes.

Ellington’s approach is also profoundly narrative. The African Diaspora- freedom fighters, musicians, inventors and thinkers are embedded and inscribed into his surfaces, creating a dialog between past, present, and future. Considering, the ancestral presence, what he describes as celestial agents echoing throughout the work.

In Place Time- A Marronage, Ellington Robinson invites us to consider our own coordinates: how we arrive, how we are shaped by the worlds we inhabit, and how memory and movement mark the lines and layers of our lives. Through materials and narrative, he creates a space where geography becomes communal memory, history becomes presence, and time becomes a map for independence and freedom.