Deborah Roberts features in 'Multiplicity: Blackness in Contemporary American Collage'
'Multiplicity' presents collage and collage-informed works that reflect the breadth and complexity of Black identity. Featuring an intergenerational group of 52 living artists, the exhibition explores the varying ways collage is employed and how the technique suggests diverse conceptual concerns such as cultural hybridity, notions of beauty, gender fluidity, and historical memory. By assembling pieces of paper, photographs, fabric, and salvaged or repurposed materials, these artists create unified compositions that express the endless possibilities of Black-constructed narratives despite our fragmented society.
Exhibited artists include Derek Fordjour, Yashua Klos, Howardena Pindell, Jamea Richmond-Edwards, Deborah Roberts, Tschabalala Self, Mickalene Thomas and Kara Walker.
The touring exhibition was previosuly on view at Frist Art Musuem, Nashville, Tennessee, and will be travelling to Phillips Collection, Washington DC in July.
