2000

"Can history continue? The question is overly simple, too large. Yet despite its unwieldiness it stubbornly arises surrounding the diminutive sculptures of David Robinson." READ IT ONLINE >>
Interval, GAP and Windows: The Conditional Monuments of David Robinson. An essay by Bruce van Slyke.

1999

"The most remarkable image in the exhibition is of a man in conventional business suit, standing barefoot, one wingtip dress shoe in each hand. His eyes peer toward an imagined horizon. Robinson's work underscores the possibility that the sacred is with us still, even in the midst of our secular, consumerist society. " READ IT ONLINE >>
Scott, Michael. Visual Arts Critic, Vancouver Sun, Dec. 16 1999.

1997

"A group of youths stand at the corner of Smythe and Seymour, seemingly oblivious to the naked man just over their shoulders..." READ IT ONLINE >>
Westender, October 1997

"Sculptor David Robinson asks us to look at each other through his eyes". READ IT ONLINE >>
Scott, Michael. Cutting fine figures, Vancouver Sun, October 8, 1997.

"I hope [the Inhabitants project] will bring my work into direct contact with the city it critiques, acting as a catalyst and crucible for personal and collective reflections on place and belonging for the city dweller." READ IT ONLINE >>
Gustafson, Paula. Nude Everymen Made Revealing Connections, The Georgia Straight, June 12, 1997

1996

"Drawing on his experience as a laborer on large-scale high-rise construction projects in booming downtown Vancouver... David Robinson has cleverly adapted the daily danger of such work into his sculptures..." READ IT ONLINE >>
Kangas, Matthew. David Robinson at Diane Farris, Art in America, October 1996.

1993

"God, man and David Robinson are at work in bold sculptures." READ IT ONLINE >>
Dykk, Lloyd. In His Own Image, The Vancouver Sun, March 3, 1993.

"In the midst of this soulless efficiency, the Vancouver sculptor asks, where is humanity's place?" READ IT ONLINE >>
Bale, Doug. Young Contemporaries Exhibition, The London Free Press, September 28, 1993.

1992

"Here an obese man and a skinny one contend on a teeter-totter-like device within a picket fence enclosure. One plans his strategy while the other fiddles with his nails. This is an Aesop-like scenario that is not a moral tale about dieting..." READ IT ONLINE >>
Rosenberg, Ann. Weighing Christianity, The Vancouver Sun, January 11, 1992.

"Our society understands power in terms of wealth, prestige, influence - any status by which we may appear to be exalted above the rest. I have never been inspired to make image which would delineate or enhance this paradigm of power..." READ IT ONLINE >>
Robinson, David. Exalted Humans, Christian Info News, January 1992.