Adrian ‘Viajero’ Román and Amber Robles-Gordon two Puerto Rican artists at The African American Museum in Philadelphia

September 16, 2016 in exhibit

PR ART NEWS -The Puerto Rican artists Adrian ‘Viajero’ Román and Amber Robles-Gordon are among the 20 artists whose works were selected for the group show “ i found god in myself: the 40 anniversary of Ntozake Shange’s for colored girls” is a two gallery art exhibit celebrating the 40th anniversary of the choreopoem/play for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf, curated by Souleo Wright at The African American Museum in Philadelphia.

*The Watcher, 2015, Gelatin printing, acrylic, collage, hand-stitching and conte, 50” x 38" by Delita Martin*

Lest We Forget

September 12, 2016 in exhibit

Galerie Myrtis

About the Exhibition

The exhibition presented at Galerie Myrtis, Lest We Forget examines pivotal moments and figures in U.S. history, as well as the everyday occurrences and unknown individuals that have impacted, to various degrees, the African American experience here, and by extension, throughout the world.

IT TAKES A NATION

September 06, 2016 in exhibit

EXHIBITION DESCRIPTION

In the Alper Initiative space, Washington artists respond to the graphics of Black Panther artist Emory Douglas with sculpture, paintings, photography and multi-media installations. The exhibition features Emory Douglas and Howard University colleagues and members of the African Commune of Bad Relevant Artists (“AFRICOBRA”): Jeff Donaldson, Akili Ron Anderson, James Phillips, Jay Jarrell and Wadsworth Jarrell. Collectively, they create a powerful lens to the socio-political landscape of the late 1960s and 70s that helps to visualize the 1967 Black Panther Party 10-point platform addressing issues of freedom, employment, economic exploitation, affordable housing, education, war, police brutality, prison, due process, and access. The exhibition also includes artists examining these same issues 50 years later within a contemporary context, including: Holly Bass, Wesley Clark, Jay Coleman, Larry Cook, Tim Davis, Jamea Richmond Edwards, Shaunte Gates, Jennifer Gray, Amber Robles Gordon, Njena Jarvis, Simmie Knox, Graham Patrick, Beverly Price, Sheldon Scott, Stan Squirewell and Hank Willis Thomas.

Quilts and Social Fabric: Heritage and Improvisation

July 06, 2016 in exhibit

Quilts and Social Fabric: Heritage and Improvisation

July 16, 2016 - January 16, 2017
PAST EXHIBITION

In Brief:

This exhibition uses the work of one of the most renowned artistic quilt makers, Faith Ringgold, as an entry point to look backward at traditional African American quilts and forward to decorative and artistic quilts, and the work of painters and mixed media artists who improvise upon the form.

DC AFRICAN-AMERICAN ARTISTS CHALLENGE STEREOTYPES AT PHILLIPS COLLECTION Posted on June 30, 2016

June 06, 2016 in article

http://artapedia.com/

Trends in Contemporary Art

June 01, 2016 in exhibit, Event

Visitors take in the art at opening night of The Critiqued.Photo for East City Art by Eric Hope. — Visitors take in the art at opening night of The Critiqued.
Photo for East City Art by Eric Hope.

East City Artnotes: The Critiqued at Otis Street Arts Project

April 06, 2016 in review

By Eric Hope, http://www.eastcityart.com

Coinciding with the organization’s one-year anniversary, Otis Street Arts Project recently unveiled its newest exhibition The Critiqued featuring works by thirteen area artists. Artists on display have all participated in the Project’s Critique program, an ongoing series of critical dialogues open to the public and facilitated by area arts professionals. Several of the finished pieces on display in this current exhibition were shown and discussed in unfinished states during those earlier peer reviews, giving audience members a unique perspective into the artists’ thought processes as they work to determine when a work is indeed finished.

Personal Patterns-Panel Discussion at Montgomery College, Cafritz Foundation Arts Center

October 30, 2015 in exhibit

We will be talking about questions that were posed by curator, Claudia Rousseau's essay. We were interested in how an artist's use of pattern might reveal something about his/her sense of identity, express cultural traditions, ethnic or racial origins, and family ties. Might it be used to express an opinion on political or scientific ideas, or a concern for the environment and its current problems? How can pattern communicate emotion and express meaning? Does it invite intimacy or does it tend to hold the viewer at a distance? Is it feminist, or connote feminism, or is it universal? Where does it fit in modern art history?

In the galleries: Heading home

September 19, 2015 in article

By Mark Jenkins, Washington Post

F. Scott Fitzgerald, group portraits and that R.E.M song. Lottery tickets, gentrification and a fast-food sign. These are among the artifacts and phenomena that define Rockville and D.C., respectively, in exhibitions that seek to reveal something of those places’ characters. The titles are telling. VisArts’s “(Come Back to) Rockville!” is a pep-squad cheer; Honfleur Gallery’s “How We Lost D.C.” is a blues lament.

"How We Lost DC" at Honfleur Gallery Wednesday, Sept. 16

September 11, 2015 in exhibit

By Emily Walz, Washington City Paper

Few cities are undergoing a period of gentrification as lengthy as D.C.’s, and perhaps none are gentrifying as quickly. The individual stories of displacement, as well as the larger narrative arc that shows how class and racial lines overlap to push out poorer minority communities, have particular poignancy in D.C., one of the first cities in the U.S. with a black majority. Against this backdrop, the local African-American artist collective Delusions of Grandeur created How We Lost DC, an exhibition the group calls “a visual discourse on gentrification.” The work of Wesley Clark, Larry Cook, Shaunté Gates, Jamea Richmond-Edwards, Amber Robles-Gorden, and Stan Squirewell encompasses photography, textile, paintings, mixed media, and sculpture in a show that moves between portraiture and would-be artifacts to tapestry and art made from maps of the District itself.

My Big Black America

May 16, 2015 in exhibit

http://rushphilanthropic.org

My Big Black America

Curated by Mikhaile Solomon

Through works in various media presented by a diverse group of contemporary artists, My BigBlack America, curated by Mikhaile Solomon, chronicles the losses and triumphs of BlackAmerica before and during Barack Obama’s presidency. Author Michael C. Dawson, argues “achieving the dreams of racial and economic equality will require the sort of coalition-building [that reaches] across racial divides that [has] always marked successful political movements”. The artists in My Big Black America collectively address this critical point in our history, in which we still experience inequality and injustices that damage the structural integrity of the entire nation. The exhibition title is based on Wesley Clark’s eponymous work, which serves as a metaphorical construct, illustrating Black America’s contribution to America as well as the injustices we have historically endured.

Arts & Culture in Anacostia - The Kojo Knamdi Show

May 15, 2015 in exhibit, Event

The historic neighborhood of Anacostia has been home to the Smithsonian Anacostia Community Museum for nearly 50 years, where it’s focused on African American history and culture. In the past decade or so, cheaper rents East of the River have drawn artists and arts organizations to the area, including the Anacostia Playhouse, which relocated from H Street NE. We explore the arts scene, and what increasing development and property values will mean.

Guests

Amber Robles Gordon Visual Artist
Camille Giraud Akeju Director, Smithsonian Anacostia Community Museum
John Johnson Playwright

WOMEN’S HISTORY MONTH: AMBER ROBLES-GORDON

March 31, 2015 in article

BYT Staff, https://brightestyoungthings.com

March is Women’s History Month. Throughout the month we be profiled D.C. based women you should know. Amy Morse, the founder of Ideas Club, headed the project. Today she profiles Amber Robles-Gordon.

Amber is a D.C.-based changemaker who turns big ideas into visual art. Her work, which ranges from 50-foot banners draped on D.C. buildings, to installation art and mixed media assemblages, addresses global consumerism, gender imbalance and other major social cultural themes. Through the symbolic use of materials and their interactions, she exploratory meditations on her work read like spiritual healing practice. Her vantage point is unique, academically grounded (MFA in painting from Howard University), and incredibly beautiful. For those who enjoy interacting with creative nonfiction cultural critiques, she is a gem in D.C. of social commentary, drawing from an intuitive connection to herself and her spiritual practice.

Divinity Revealed at African Heritage Cultural Arts Center

February 07, 2015 in exhibit

In honor of Women’s History Month, the African Heritage Cultural Arts Center presented the Amadlozi Gallery Exhibition

Divinity Revealed will premier works by national artists, LaToya Hobbs, Sheena Rose, Martin Nyarko, and Amber Robles -Gordon. This exhibition explores femininity from the artist’s perspective within the context of their community and the world. The gallery’s opening reception is March 5th at 6pm with curatorial presentations at 6:30pm at the African Heritage Cultural Arts Center, 6161 NW 22nd Avenue, Miami, FL 33142. It is free to attend, rsvp required. The Divinity Revealed exhibition is part of “Sankofa: Looking Back, Going Forward,” a year-long series of events and performances that bring alumni back to the African Heritage Cultural Arts Center to inspire the next generation of talent, in celebration of the Center’s fortieth anniversary with funding support from The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, as part of its Knight Arts Challenge.

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Examiner.com: DC artists bring local flavor to Prizm Art Fair in Miami

December 06, 2014 in article

Examiner.com

A talented group of creatives from the DC area are showing their work in the Prizm Art Fair at Art Basel Miami. Prizm is a curated exhibition founded in 2013 by Mikhaile Solomon, a Miami-based designer, arts advocate and producer. According to Solomon, the mission of Prizm is to promote artists of color and “expand the spectrum of international artists from the African Diaspora and emerging markets at one of the most prestigious art festivals in the world.”

The Prizm Art Fair, located at the Miami Center For Architecture And Design (100 NE 1st Avenue), is one of many events held during Art Basel week - an international showcase for contemporary art featuring over 300 distinguished galleries and attracting an estimated 80,000 visitors.

South Capitol Skyscape: Amber Robles-Gordon

November 07, 2014 in exhibit

Washington Projects for the Arts

WPA presents a new work by DC-based artist Amber Robles-Gordon for the second installation in its South Capitol Skyscape series. For the 50-foot banner on the South Capitol Street façade of the hotel, WPA has excerpted a portion of Robles-Gordon's new work entitled At the Altar: Dance of the Serpents. Created through her signature assemblage process combining textiles and found objects, the work takes new form using a recycled hammock as its support and foundation, representing the structural constructs of the past and the restrictive patterns of repetitive thinking.

Join Us! Honfleur Gallery & Womble Carlyle

November 02, 2014 in exhibit

Womble Carlyle invites you to join us for an evening of art and networking,
as we once again transform our DC office into an art gallery featuring four local artists including:
BK ADAMS • I AM ART, Amber Robles-Gordon, Mei Mei Chang, and Monica Stroik.

In collaboration with Honfleur Gallery, our spring exhibit will also showcase pieces from Critical Exposure, a non-profit that teaches photography and advocacy skills to youths throughout Washington, DC.

Monica Stroik will show three video installations.

WHEN: Thursday, May 15, 2014
5:30-8:00 p.m. - Reception

WHERE: Womble Carlyle
1200 19th Street, NW - Suite 500
Washington, DC 20036

Directions

There is no cost to attend.

By invitation only, space is limited.

Kindly RSVP by Friday, May 9, 2014.

Can't make the reception?

You can still view the artwork, which will be on display from May 15 – June 16.
By appointment only.

Questions?
Please contact Lynn Edwards-Hall at
202.857.4414 or LEdwards-Hall@wcsr.com.

Artwork co-curated by: Beth Ferraro, Honfleur Gallery

Hybrid Mastery – Artists’ Corner: Amber Robles-Gordon

August 28, 2014 in article

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Two years ago, Virgin Islands Property and Yacht magazine interviewed famous local artist Joseph Hodge, unveiling his artistic finesse and wealth of experience to our readers. It is of little surprise that his bloodline has conceived more talented individuals in cousin Amber Robles-Gordon, a mixed media sculptor and installation artist, who has recently discovered several of her relatives, including Joseph Hodge via our technological accessibility to the globe.

FROM DC 2 MIA!

June 07, 2014 in article

Seven artists from DC have been invited to participate in the Prizm Art Fair and we need your help to get there! The Selected Artists: Holly Bass, Wesley Clark, Jamea Richmond-Edwards, Shaunte Gates, Amber Robles-Gordon, Adrienne Gaither and Stan Squirewell.

In recent years, DC artists, collectors and gallerists have been making the pilgrimage to Art Basel Miami Beach in ever-growing numbers. With 260 leading galleries participating and over 50,000 people in attendance, Art Basel Miami is one of the most highly exposed art fairs in North America. This year a group of 7 Black artists will be showing work together at the Prizm Art Fair, along with other jury-selected American and international artists. This is an incredible opportunity, not only as artists but as ambassadors of DC’s contemporary art scene.

Genius or Gobbledygook? “Real Beauty” at Carroll Square Gallery →

May 13, 2014 in review

LOUIS JACOBSON, http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com

Art theory is often inscrutable, and it’s doubly so for abstract painting. That’s why the framing of the “Real Beauty” at Carroll Square Gallery needs to be taken with a grain of salt.

“Abstraction is arguably the truest representation of how the world feels, though by definition it obscures how the world actually appears,” reads the exhibit’s wall-posted introduction.

Is this genius or gobbledygook? It’s hard to tell. And most of the works—all of them abstractions, by four different artists—don't offer much help in sorting it out.