Artists often find themselves on the receiving end of intense criticism when they make so-called challenging work. This has been intensified by the current political climate and the effects of social media. Join New York-based painter and art critic, Walter Robinson and Senior Critic and independent curator, Dexter Wimberly for a frank conversation about censorship and freedom of expression in the visual arts.
Walter Robinson is a New York painter and art critic. His most recent exhibitions took place at Air de Paris in late 2021, and at Galleria Mazzoli in Modena, Italy, opening at the end of 2020. Galleria Mazzoli published a 500-page monograph on his work by Richard Milazzo, titled “A Kiss before Dying.” Robinson has also shown his paintings at Galerie Sébastien Bertrand in Geneva, Jeffrey Deitch in NYC, Pure Joy in Marfa, Charlie James in Los Angeles, Stems Gallery in Brussels, Inna Art Space in Hangzhou, China, and Vito Schnabel in St. Moritz, Switzerland. In 2017 his work was included in “Fast Forward: Work from the 1980s” at the Whitney Museum. As an art writer, Robinson was founding editor of Artnet Magazine (1996-2012) and of Art-Rite (1973-1977), and also wrote on art for Art in America, Artspace.com, the East Village Eye and the Observer. Robinson is credited with coining the term “Zombie Formalism” to describe a kind of process-based abstraction that became popular in the contemporary art market in 2014.