Daniel Robinson was born in Buffalo, New York in 1963. Robinson has been exhibiting his work in galleries since 1994, in Seattle, Boston and in 2025 he joined the Froelick Gallery. Mr. Robinson lives in Fossil, Oregon with his wife and children.
"Daniel Robinson's urban landscapes...combine the romance of industry that dates back to the 1930s with the early light-and-shadow soaked paintings of de Chirico. It’s always late afternoon or dusk in Robinson’s paintings…The cylinders and cubes of the buildings boldly shape his space, which he then softens with leafy foregrounds or drift-ing clouds. But it's the honey of the slanting sun and the shadows it casts that give these paintings a poignant timelessness. Robinson doesn't deliberate industry's potential nor rue its demise. He's simply in love with its forms.” - Cate McQuaid The Boston Globe
"I'm just curious why Robinson's images of rural Oregon - roughly in the tradition of social realism and WPA era artists - has a grip on us right now. The answer probably says a great deal about who we are and where we are heading... But perhaps the most compelling way to look at these works is within the framework of a changing era, the transition from mid-20th century industry to something far more abstract and ephemeral. Robinson's paper mills and grain elevators, as well as other natural landscapes we often forget about, remind us of a past and a way of making things that may not return or thrive again in the same way - just like General Motors. That's not a bad thing. This is a dizzying, electrifying time where time present is already time past and where eloquence is measured by 140 succinct words. It's an era beyond measurable history, beyond the usual metrics. Robinson reminds us of how fine and beautiful things were. And will be, no matter what.” - D.K. Row The Oregonian