On April 25, 1991, Robb preempted NBC's plans to break a sex scandal story by publicly admitting that he had spent time with former Miss Virginia Tai Collins alone in a hotel room. Robb claimed that the two had merely shared a bottle of wine and a massage. However, Collins later told Playboy magazine that the two had been having an affair since 1983.
Despite the sex scandal, Robb narrowly defeated former Iran-Contra figure Oliver North in a 1994 reelection bid after popular RepublicanSenatorJohn Warner refused to support his fellow Republican and instead backed third-party candidate J. Marshall Coleman. After two terms in the Senate, he was defeated in the 2000 election by his Republican opponent, George Allen, who was also a former governor. Robb was the only Democratic incumbent senator to be defeated in that election. After losing to Allen, Robb began teaching at George Mason University law school.
In 1977, Robb won election as a Democrat for the Lieutenant Governorship of Virginia.
Robb was elected in 1988, defeating Maurice Dawkins with 71% of the vote.
Robb ranked annually as one of the most ideologically centrist Senators, and he often acted as a bridge between Democratic and Republican members, preferring background dealmaking to seeking the legislative limelight.
Robb scans a history of humanism and modes of representation from the classical period of Socrates and Plato to the present day in an attempt to explore ideas of objectivity and subjectivity, particularly as they pertain to a specifically male association with image and body.
It would be misleading to suggest that Robb’s interest in the implications or the possibility of a ‘sculptural objective self’ is not imbued with a complex and confusing register of emotion.
In his portraits Robb is never clothed, he is nearly always hairless and seen with eyes closed in an attempt to produce a body that is neither an infant nor a cadaver.
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