Walter
Robinson
Walter Robinson
Walter Robinson is a New Mexico artist who makes content-based sculpture. Working in a range of media—wood, epoxy, metal, leather, and found materials—Robinson hand-fabricates and assembles objects, signage and tableaux. Through his work, he explores the mechanics of cultural and social anthropology. Using text and the strategies of appropriation, conflation, and dislocation, he investigates the subconscious and biological human imperatives hidden beneath social, political, religious, and capitalist packaging.
Robinson’s work has been featured in solo exhibitions at the San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA; Palo Alto Art Center, Palo Alto, CA; Montalvo Arts Center, Saratoga, CA, and in numerous group exhibitions across the United States and abroad. His work is in the collections of the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego; the Crocker Art Museum; the Nevada Museum of Art; the San Jose Museum of Art; the di Rosa Center for Contemporary Art; the Sheldon Museum of Art; and the Djerassi Foundation.
His work has received critical attention from a number of print and online publications, including Artforum, ArtReview, New York Times, Vanity Fair, Juxtapoz, the San Francisco Chronicle, THE Magazine and artpractical.com. An alumnus of the M.F.A. program at Lone Mountain College in San Francisco, CA, he also studied at California College of Arts and Crafts, and San Francisco Academy of Art. .