Chris Roberts-Antieau
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Chris Roberts-Antieau | |
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 Chris Roberts-Antieau | |
| Born | November 18, 1950 Michigan, U.S. |
| Known for | Fiber art |
| Children | 1 |
Chris Lee Roberts-Antieau (born November 18, 1950) is an American fiber artist based in Michigan. She described her work as "embroidered tapestries," created with the use of fabric appliqué, thread painting, and hand embroidery. She also draws, paints, and creates mixed-media works.[1]
Early life and career
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Roberts-Antieau was born and raised in Michigan. She learned to sew in her seventh-grade home economics class. She briefly enrolled in a high school art class, but eventually dropped out and did not attend college.[2][3]
Roberts-Antieau's career began in the early 1980s when she began sewing three-dimensional sculptures of circus workers, trapeze artists, and male figures.[4] She then took an appliqué class, where she learned to develop her pencil sketches and paintings into fabric art. Roberts-Antieau began appliquéing her drawings onto fabric, creating a line of vests, jackets, and handbags. Her work has been described as “Embroidered Tapestries” — to represent its combination of fabric appliqué, thread painting, and hand embroidery.[5]
Each of Roberts-Antieau fabric works are made from freehand-cut cloth shapes enclosed within a glass painted frame. The self-taught artist began as a clothing designer, running her own company with a staff of fifteen.[6]
She opened a gallery in Louisiana[7], and with the gallery in her direct ownership, Roberts-Antieau had more control over the sale of her work and she spent more time in her Michigan studio. After a breast cancer diagnosis, her work became more introspective and often focused on everyday experiences.[8]
In 2017, Roberts-Antieau and her team traveled to Santa Fe, New Mexico, for a pop-up experience. She then opened a gallery in Santa Fe.[9]
Roberts-Antineau owns a galley in Santa Fe, New Mexico[10], as well as a gallery and a frame shop in Louisiana[11].
Select exhibitions
[edit]- 2021 Healing And The Art Of Compassion (And Lack Thereof!) American Visionary Art Museum. Baltimore, MD
- 2020The Art Of Play. Antieau Gallery. Santa Fe, NM
- 2019The Secret Life Of Earth: Alive! Awake! (and possibly really angry!). American Visionary Art Museum. Baltimore,he gallery had been in operation since 2010 and moved further into the French Quarter after Hurricane Ida flooded the original location
- Dreaming And Doing. Antieau Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
- 50th Jazz & Heritage Festival. Antieau Gallery, New Orleans, LA
- 2018 Parenting: An Art Without A Manual. American Visionary Art Museum. Baltimore, MD
- Mind and Hands. Gallery 81435. Telluride Arts District, Telluride, CO
- The Myth of Certainty. Antieau Gallery. New Orleans, LA + Santa Fe, NM
- 2017 Ad Lucem. Gallery 81435. Telluride Arts District, Telluride, CO[12]
- New Work. Antieau Gallery, New Orleans, LA
- Hey Asheville. Horse + Hero, Asheville, NC
- James Brown’s Funeral. Antieau Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
- Yum! The History, Fantasy and Future of Food. American Visionary Art Museum. Baltimore, MD
- Sunny’s Calicoon Pop. Calicoon, NY
- 2016 Night Flying. Antieau Gallery. New Orleans, LA
- Ephemeral Nature. Kohler Art Center. Sheboygan, WI
- The Big Hope Show. American Visionary Art Museum. Baltimore, MD
- The New Orleanian. Heron Arts. San Francisco, CA
- Two person Exhibition. Chelsea Underground Gallery
- Gumbo: A Celebration of Louisiana Art. Jeannie Taylor Folk Art Gallery. Sanford, FL
- 2015 Small Indignities. Red Truck Gallery. New Orleans, LA
- Louisiana Contemporary. Ogden Museum of Southern Art. New Orleans, LA
- 2014 Phantom Limb. Antieau Gallery. New Orleans, LA
- Human, Soul & Machine: The Coming Singularity. American Visionary Art Museum. Baltimore, MD
- 2013 Gathering Stars. Antieau Gallery. New Orleans, LA
- Hard Times in Mini Mall. Shooting Gallery. San Francisco, CA
- The Art of Storytelling: Lies Enchantment, Humor and Truth. American Visionary Art Museum. Baltimore, MD
- 2011 What Makes Us Smile. American Visionary Art Museum. Baltimore, MD
Public collections
[edit]- UWF Pensacola Museum of Art, Pensacola, FL.
- American Visionary Art Museum, Baltimore, MD
- Boxing Hall of Fame, Canastota, NY
- House of Representatives, Washington, DC
- Smithsonian Museum of American Art, Washington, DC
- 21c Museum Hotel, Oklahoma City, OK
- 21c Museum Hotel, Durham, NC
- Art In Embassies[13]
Filmography
[edit]A Love Letter to Tom Waits: The Life of Chris Roberts-Antieau - A documentary about the life and work of Roberts-Antieau.[14][15]
Publications
[edit]See Also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Steinmetz, Katy (May 2, 2013). "From Fabric Paintings to Tragic Snow Globes | Joy and a Bit of Scary: The Whimsical Work of Chris Roberts-Antieau". Time. ISSN 0040-781X. Retrieved September 30, 2024.
- ^ Perrett, Kelsey (July 8, 2014). "The dark and the light side: Edgartown's Antieau Gallery". The Martha's Vineyard Times. Retrieved September 18, 2024.
- ^ "Chris Roberts-Antieau thinks art schools often destroy innate creativity and many student artists along with it". www.arttimesjournal.com. Retrieved November 18, 2024.
- ^ "Chris Roberts-Antieau, telling stories with fabric". Retrieved November 18, 2024.
- ^ Burton, Elizabeth (September 24, 2023). "From Stella Jones to Callan Contemporary: Eight Captivating New Orleans Art Galleries". Design Dash. Retrieved November 20, 2024.
- ^ "Chris Roberts-Antieau's 'Fabric Paintings' Are Bright, Ingenious, And Downright Kalman-esque". Huffington Post. Retrieved December 19, 2024.
- ^ "Antieau Gallery". Explore Louisiana. Retrieved December 19, 2024.
- ^ Steinmetz, Katy (May 2, 2013). "What It's Like to Have Breast Cancer, 2010 | Joy and a Bit of Scary: The Whimsical Work of Chris Roberts-Antieau". Time. ISSN 0040-781X. Retrieved November 20, 2024.
- ^ "Antieau Gallery". Antieau Gallery. Retrieved November 20, 2024.
- ^ Abatemarco, Michael. "Chris Roberts-Antieau at Antieau Gallery". Santa Fe New Mexican. Retrieved December 19, 2024.
- ^ "Antieau Gallery". New Orleans. Retrieved December 19, 2024.
- ^ "Chris Roberts - Antieau". Telluride arts. Retrieved December 19, 2024.
- ^ "Art in Embassies". US Department of State. Retrieved December 19, 2024.
- ^ Eberbach, Jennifer (September 21, 2010). "Nationally known Manchester artist Chris Roberts-Antieau's life, art captured on film". The Ann Arbor News. Archived from the original on September 24, 2010.
- ^ "IMDB: A Love Letter to Tom Waits: The Life of Chris Roberts-Antieau". IMDB.
- ^ Sew Far: The Fantastic, Incredible, and Amazing Life and Work of Chris Roberts-Antieau. Chris Roberts-Antieau Publishing. 2007.
- ^ Francine, Prose (December 2008). "Reading Room: Give Them the World". O, The Oprah Magazine: 183.