In SoHo20's Gallery One Robin Starbuck is exhibiting a multi-media installation that includes video and sculpture.

For the past several years Robin Starbuck's studio work has included an investigation of psycho symbolic development in western culture. This work relies significantly upon suggestions of the taboo, the infantile, and the obsessive in a parodic layering of images, sound, and textual references. Her primary focus has involved an application of trauma theory to American cultural identity. As Starbuck writes, "It is the peculiarly haunting power of traumatic cause and memory that has intrigued me and which I attempt to pattern in my work".

With Limping Down the Fence Line she explores the development of post-colonial identity structures within American Frontier communities (cowboy, Native American) - suggesting that within contemporary clokes of stereotypical identity lie shadows of personal and cultural history.

Laurels of Conquest is one in a series of video installations called Limping Down the Fence Line. Her piece for SoHo20 Gallery focuses upon the cyclic nature of life and death in the daily work of cowboys/cowgirls, that of handling cows. With this work Starbuck suggets that the metaphor inherent in one species dominating another applies to the history of the American west where white Europeans invaded and conquered a native culture and justified this in the name of survival.

In addition to it's psychological and cultural content Starbuck designs her work to provide a degree of visual amusement. As she says "For me this often creates a situation where how the piece reads publicly may well supersede my own intended systems of meaning". With Laurels of Conquest the weaving of animated toys and raw film footage provides a critical a reading of the cliches of the American west simultaneous with the exposure of the deeper gritty reality of life in this contemporary "frontier".