Walter Robinson

Walter Robinson

BornNationalityBased In
1950AmericanNew York City
Biography

Walter Robinson began painting in New York during the late 70's, where he was associated with the Picture Generation and soon became a key figure on the local scene. He is also highly popular for his work as an editor and critic: he was the publisher of Art-Rite and then co-founded the Artnet magazine. As a critic, he originated in 2014 the term "zombie formalism" that fuelled many debates. A pioneer of the Picture Generation, Robinson painted nurses before Richard Prince and spin paintings before Damien Hirst. His work is almost exclusively figurative and consisting of appropriation of commercial images. One finds advertisements for Target, Land's End, and other cheap fashion catalogues (the Normcore series), images of romance novel covers (Romance series), and also pictures of food and pharmaceutical products (Still Lifes) Most of the images he diverts are ranging from materialistic desires represented by common consumer items (such as clothes, food, pharmaceutical products, banknotes), to very idealistic and paradigmatic desires found in advertising clichés displaying the playful happiness of the multicultural Western ideal. Robinson's tone, for instance when he speaks of consumerism as a perfect world, always seems ironic but never cynical.. ...

Selected Artworks
Nightmare
Walter Robinson
Nightmare, 2021
152.4 x 121.9cm
Hawaii
Walter Robinson
Hawaii, 2023
152.4 x 152.4cm
Tick Tock / Three graces
Walter Robinson
Tick Tock / Three graces, 2020
182 x 122cm
Daily Medications
Walter Robinson
Daily Medications, 2020
101.6 x 152.4cm
Undressed to Kill
Walter Robinson
Undressed to Kill, 2018
243.8 x 167.6cm
Hungry Hill
Walter Robinson
Hungry Hill, 2018
243.8 x 167.6cm
Strange Journey
Walter Robinson
Strange Journey, 2017
233.7 x 160cm
Morgue for Venus
Walter Robinson
Morgue for Venus, 2019
101.6 x 152.4cm
Autopsy
Walter Robinson
Autopsy, 2022
121.9 x 91.4cm
Dangerous to Handle
Walter Robinson
Dangerous to Handle, 2021
91.4 x 60.9cm
The Castaways
Walter Robinson
The Castaways, 2021
190.5 x 137.2cm
Indochina
Walter Robinson
Indochina, 2021
182.9 x 121.9cm
The Pit
Walter Robinson
The Pit, 2022
152.4 x 152.4cm
Buccaneer
Walter Robinson
Buccaneer, 2018
98 x 73.5cm
Models in the Studio II
Walter Robinson
Models in the Studio II, 2023
101.6 x 101.6cm
Abstract Painter at the Easel
Walter Robinson
Abstract Painter at the Easel, 2023
121.9 x 121.9cm
Judas
Gallery Representation
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