born 1952 in Winnipeg Manitoba, Canada painter and critic lives and works as free lance artist and professor in Vancouver and Ontario, professor for painting University of British Columbia (until 2000). Numerous publications. Linsley recently held an exhibition in the Felix Ringel Gallery in Düsseldorf/Germany. A catalogue was published on this occasion (Robert Linsley, Islands, 13.April – 11.Mai 2002, www.felixringel.com)
In his text „Virtual and esoteric spaces in Pollock and Matta-Clark – from Cubism to Society“ Linsley traces the cubist roots of Pollock’s drip paintings with special regard to the change of space conceptions during the war period through the Paalen – Matta controversy.