Robin Galante, Artist

Hello! 

So this past Saturday, we had a super fun show at the Monkey House Theater in Berkeley, CA. It's a wonderful, intimate venue with great sound and an awesome audience. Owner Ira Marlowe was kind enough to shoot a video of our set. 

Click here to watch selected songs from our performance, as well as see the whole set if you are bored at work and don't mind a little banter (you can always fast-forward through the tuning and talking, right?).

I know I haven't been on here much - pretty busy with a range of…Read more

The other day, my mind did its usual wandering (yeah, while I was working - sshhhh), and I found myself imagining a post-apocalyptic world where humans were gone, and all of the things we valued so much had been left behind. This world also included strange animals that grew lightbulbs out of their heads. 

And then I went back to work. But not before drawing several scenes from this strange time and place: 

Usually, my dream drawings are a mashup of all the dreams I remember after a given night. Sometimes these drawings have as many as 4 separate dreams in them. 

The other night, all I could remember when I woke up is a snippet of a dream, where I was gazing up at the sky and the sky was filled with cherry blossoms and paper airplanes. The image stuck with me throughout the morning, and I decided to capture this moment in an illustration.

This picture is my simplest dream drawing and it showed me that I don't…Read more

Have you ever had a dream where you are in the middle of, say, a zoo, but you know that it's actually your house? Okay, maybe not a zoo. It could be a supermarket, an ice-skating rink, or perhaps it's a house. Wherever it is, it surely doesn't look anything like your home. Despite all appearances, though, this place feels very familiar. 

Things in dreams are often not what they are in real life. (That sentence sounds so lame, but I'm not sure how else to put it). 




Like, in one dream, I was shopping for brakes…Read more