Daniel Robinson
For the month of May, Russo Lee Gallery exhibits Some Kind of Lonesome by invited artist Daniel Robinson. This exhibition includes oil paintings permeated with light, shadow, and color. Robinson paints the rural, natural landscapes of Eastern Oregon. He states that, “Realist painters have always favored the mundane and ordinary and in Fossil where I live, we have it in spades”. Recalling the social realist images of the 1930's and 40’s, Robinson’s body of work beautifully depicts the industrial and rural landscapes where he lives and works.
Daniel Robinson studied at the Pacific Northwest College of Art, and later at Portland State University, where he earned his BA in Fine Art in 1991. Originally from Buffalo, New York, Robinson now lives and works in Fossil, Oregon. The first monograph of his work is titled In Oregon and was published in 2004 by Nazraeli Press, a publisher of books on the fine and applied arts. Robinson has been in numerous solo exhibitions since 1993. His work is in the permanent collections of the Hallie Ford Museum, Salem, OR, and the Wilbur James Collection, which is promised to Cape Ann Museum, Gloucester, MA.