Walter Robinson a Retrospective at DEITCH PROJECTS

Veröffentlicht am 19.09.2016

James Kalm, hoping to establish himself as an artist, drifted into New York in the late 1970s. This was the moment the tumultuous 80s were about to take off and challenge the norms and conventions that were the cultural remnants from the late 1960s. Walter Robinson was already here, founding an influential “little magazine” called Art-Rite, mingling with other young intellectuals who would foster the “Pictures Generation”, as well as slumming around with the Post-Punks who would create their own art world called “the East Village”. And that was only the first chapter. Through all this, Robinson has been a painter, reflecting not only those around him, but focusing in on the ideas and images that have come to present an index of an era. The first iteration of this retrospective was curated by Barry Blinderman as “Paintings and Other Indulgences” mounted at the University Galleries of Illinois State University. Earlier this year, it moved to the Galleries at Moore College of Art and Design. Finally, the show comes home to the SoHo, with the return and reopening of Jeffrey Deitch Projects at 18 Wooster Street, where the whole shebang started nearly forty years ago.This program was recorded September 17, 2016 in SoHo.