Paintings on Paper is a self-published comic-book-inspired monograph compiling the artist’s favorite examples of his extensive acrylic paintings on paper made over the last dozen years. The 50 life-sized pages picture the intersection of desire and commerce in the contemporary American spectacle. The essay by Sarah Nicole Prickett is not a typical art critical text but rather a short story whose narrative skips along the surface of the real in an uncanny parallel to Robinson’s artworks. The text is itself a notably innovative work of fiction.
Commonly known for his long tenure as critic and editor at Art in America and as founding editor of Artnet, Walter Robinson has had a long career as an artist as well. A member of the artists collective Collaborative Projects, Robinson’s neo pop paintings shared in the school of postmodern painters such as Eric Fischl, Tom Lawson and David Salle
