My paintings require me to occupy space in a way that most people do not. As a teenager, I worked as a janitor to help pay my way through private high school. A janitor understands a room differently than the guests at a party. The janitor visits after others have left, often alone. The janitor is largely invisible. But in another sense, the janitor is a privileged visitor — present for the moment when a room might tilt back into possibility.

One common thread that runs through all of Robinson’s work is a complex psychology-a tension and depth of feeling that results from intense and perceptive observation. In his paintings feelings become graspabel. Robinson’s subjects are evocative and dream like, but they also exist right in front of you.

- Brett Baker

realism has a way of intensifying the seemingly casual visual perception so that its deeper necessity stands revealed.

-Bill Berkson, Artforum