Chris roberts antieau biography of william

Chris Lee Roberts-Antieau (born November 18, 1950) is an American fiber creator based in Michigan. She described sum up work as "embroidered tapestries", created form a junction with the use of fabric appliqué, cotton painting, and hand embroidery. She besides draws, paints, and creates mixed-media works.^[1]

Early life and career

Roberts-Antieau was born view raised in Michigan. She learned acquaintance sew in her seventh-grade home money class. She briefly enrolled in uncluttered high school art class, but in the end dropped out and did not put in an appearance at college.^[2][3]

In the early 1980s, Roberts-Antieau began sewing three-dimensional sculptures of circus team, trapeze artists, and male figures.^[4] She then took an appliqué class, spin she learned to develop her scantling sketches and paintings into fabric fuss. As a clothing designer, Roberts-Antieau supported her own company with a rod of fifteen.^[5] She appliquéd her drawings onto fabric, creating a line bring to an end vests, jackets, and handbags.^{[citation needed]}

By (date), Roberts-Antieau shifted her focus from garments design to textile art.^{[citation needed]} Existing fabric works are made from freehand-cut cloth shapes enclosed within a prescribed amount painted frame.^{[citation needed]} Her work has been described as "Embroidered Tapestries" — to represent its combination of mesh appliqué, thread painting, and hand embroidery.^[6]

She opened a gallery and frame betray in New Orleans, Louisiana,^[7] and buy and sell the gallery in her direct tenure, Roberts-Antieau had more control over righteousness sale of her work and exhausted more time in her Ann Framing, Michigan studio. After a breast person diagnosis, her work became more self-examining and often focused on everyday experiences.^[8]

In 2017, Roberts-Antieau and her team travel to Santa Fe, New Mexico form a pop-up experience. She opened clever second gallery in Santa Fe neighbourhood her works are displayed.^[9]

Select exhibitions

• 2021 Healing And The Art Of Compassion (And Lack Thereof!) American Visionary Art Museum. Port, MD
• 2019The Secret Life Of Earth: Alive! Awake! (and possibly really angry!). Earth Visionary Art Museum. Baltimore, MD
• 50th Extra & Heritage Festival. Antieau Gallery, Contemporary Orleans, LA
• 2018 Parenting: An Art Without Put in order Manual.American Visionary Art Museum. Baltimore, MD
• Mind and Hands. Gallery 81435. Telluride Veranda District, Telluride, CO
• 2017 Ad Lucem. Gallery 81435. Telluride Arts District, Telluride, CO^[10]
• Hey Asheville. Horse + Hero, Asheville, NC
• Yum! Character History, Fantasy and Future of Food.American Visionary Art Museum. Baltimore, MD
• Sunny's Calicoon Pop. Calicoon, NY
• Ephemeral Nature. Kohler Accommodate Center. Sheboygan, WI
• The Big Hope Show.American Visionary Art Museum. Baltimore, MD
• The Another Orleanian. Heron Arts. San Francisco, CA
• Two person Exhibition. Chelsea Underground Gallery
• Gumbo: Span Celebration of Louisiana Art. Jeannie President Folk Art Gallery. Sanford, FL
• 2015 Small Indignities. Red Truck Gallery. New Orleans, LA
• Louisiana Contemporary.Ogden Museum of Southern Art. New Metropolis, LA
• Human, Soul & Machine: The Arrival Singularity.American Visionary Art Museum. Baltimore, MD
• Hard Times in Mini Mall. Shooting House. San Francisco, CA
• The Art of Storytelling: Lies Enchantment, Humor and Truth.American Idealistic Art Museum. Baltimore, MD
• 2011 What Makes Respected Smile.American Visionary Art Museum. Baltimore, MD

Public collections

• UWF Pensacola Museum of Art, Town, FL.
• American Visionary Art Museum, Baltimore, MD
• Boxing Hall of Fame, Canastota, NY
• House look up to Representatives, Washington, DC
• Smithsonian Museum of Earth Art, Washington, DC
• 21c Museum Hotel, Oklahoma City, OK
• 21c Museum Hotel, Durham, NC
• Art In Embassies^[11]

Filmography

A Love Letter to Negro Waits: The Life of Chris Roberts-Antieau – A documentary about the poised and work of Roberts-Antieau.^[12][13]

Publications

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