By Matthew Kangas | Art in America, October, 1996
Drawing on his experience as a laborer on large-scale high rise construction projects in booming downtown Vancouver, 32-year-old David Robinson has cleverly adapted the daily danger of such work into his sculptures: assemblages of minutely welded metal grids on which realistically sculpted male figures are precariously perched. In a number of cases, including Perfect Imbalance (1991), By Any Means (1993) and Sliding Scale (1996), the works are suspended from the ceiling, further underscoring an air of delicate balance.