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Artist L.J. Roberts visiting the Department of Art and Design for Artist's Talk
October 02, 2015
The Visiting Artist Committee welcomes L.J. Roberts as a 2015 visiting artist in Art and Design.
L.J. Roberts is an artist and writer whose studio practice incorporates a wide range of traditional and unconventional textile techniques, and recently collaged works on paper and filmmaking. Their work explores the intersections of feminist queer and trans politics, activism, the ongoing AIDS epidemic, collective action, community, and protest.
Their work has been shown nationally and internationally in such venues as The Smithsonian Museum of American Art, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, Vox Populi, La Mama Gallery, The Miller Gallery at Carnegie Mellon University, Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art, Oakville Galleries, The Orange County Museum of Art, The Bag Factory, The San Jose Museum of Quilts and Textiles, and A.I.R. Gallery. Currently, their work can be seen in the nationally touring exhibition Alien She, presently at the Museum of Contemporary Craft in Portland, Oregon, and in the exhibition Disobedient Objects which originated at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London and opens in 2015 at The Powerhouse Museum in Sydney, Australia. L.J.’s recent embroidery work exhibited in upcoming shows at the Bowdoin College Museum of Art and the ONE National Gay and Lesbian Archives at The University of Southern California in Los Angeles. L.J.'s work is in the permanent collections of the Smithsonian Museum of American Art and the Oakland Museum of California.
L.J. also maintains a critical writing practice that bridges craft and queer theory. Their writing can be found in the anthology Extra/Ordinary: Craft Culture in Contemporary Art published by Duke University Press and Craftivism: The Art of Craft and Activism published by Arsenal Pulp Press. They have also published writing in Hyphen Magazine, Art Practical, and Studio Potter and have essays forthcoming in Transgender Studies Quarterly and DUETS, an ongoing book series published by Visual AIDS. LJ's work has been written about in such publications as The New York Times, Artforum.com , ART News, ARTPULSE, American Craft, Hyperallergic, Hand/Eye Magazine Surface Design Journal, The San Francisco Chronicle, the Los Angeles Times, and The Journal of Modern Craft, among other publications.
For more information, click on the link to Robert's website.
Art students who would like to schedule a critique with L.J. or who would like to have dinner or lunch with them should contact Professor Ana Campbell at [email protected].