"Junior Border Patrol (Melania)" is a darkly parodic response to the heightened awareness of border politics/immigration debate, in which the current administration's strong-armed efforts are trivialized as a child-like billy club, with matching name tags for its various practitioners/implementers.

 

Walter Robinson works in a range of materials—wood, epoxy, metal, and found materials—of which he hand-fabricates and assembles objects, signage and tableaux.  Robinson’s work investigates the mechanics of cultural and social anthropology. Using text and the strategies of appropriation, conflation, and dislocation, he uncovers the subconscious and biological human imperatives hidden beneath social, political, religious, and capitalist packaging.

 

Robinson’s work has been featured in solo exhibitions at the Palo Alto Art Center, the San Jose Museum of Art, and Villa Montalvo, as well as numerous group exhibitions across the United States and abroad.  His work is included in many public and private collections including: Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego; Crocker Art Museum; Nevada Museum of Art; San Jose Museum of Art; the di Rosa Preserve: Art & Nature; The Sheldon Museum of Art; and the Djerassi Foundation.