Shown in tandem with Deborah Roberts’s solo exhibition Come walk in my shoes, these three billboards feature enlarged reproductions of recent mixed media figurative collages (2018-2020) centered on the subject of Black childhood in the United States. Through these works, Roberts questions stereotypes and creates space for more nuanced and empathetic understandings of the experience of Black children in America. Roberts offers a powerful critique of systemic injustices, society’s expectations, and the many biases that continue to impact their lives.
Artist Bios
Deborah Roberts
Deborah Roberts is a mixed-media artist whose figurative works depict the complexity of Black subjecthood and explore themes of race, identity, and gender politics. Her work has been exhibited internationally across the US and Europe. Roberts’s work is in the collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Brooklyn Museum, New York; The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York; and Los Angeles County Museum of Art, California. She was named 2023 Texas Medal of Arts Award Honoree for the Visual Arts. Roberts was selected to participate in the Robert Rauschenberg Residency (2019) and is a recipient of the Anonymous Was A Woman Grant (2018), the Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant (2016), and the Ginsburg-Klaus Award Fellowship (2014).VIEW ARTIST
