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Carry you with me : ten years of portraits

Title
Carry you with me : ten years of portraits / LJ Roberts.
Publication
Brooklyn (NY) : Pioneer Works, [2021]

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Additional Authors
  • Roberts, LJ, 1980-
  • Rodney, Sur
  • Takemoto, T. T.
  • Latimer, Tirza True
  • Hermo, Carmen
  • Kerr, Theodore
Description
141 pages; 32 x 24 cm
Summary
The result of a long-term, ongoing project by Brooklyn-based artist LJ Roberts (born 1980), Ten Years of Portraits consists of six-by-four-inch embroidered portraits of the artist's friends, collaborators and lovers within New York City's queer and trans communities. Stitched entirely by hand and typically completed during transit on subway trains, these textile works -- culminating in Roberts' first publication as well as their first New York solo exhibition at Pioneer Works -- aim to illustrate how politics, culture and identity manifest in both visible and subtle ways through everyday encounters in daily life. Depicting both the rectos and versos of each embroidery, this publication presents portraiture in both figurative and abstract form while also providing us a glimpse into the textile craft. For Roberts, the adaptability of these techniques mirrors the flexibility, resilience and resourcefulness needed to navigate the world as a queer, gender nonconforming and nonbinary person.
Subject
  • Roberts, LJ, 1980-
  • Roberts, LJ, 1980- > Friends and associates > Portraits
  • Sexual minorities > New York (State) > New York > Portraits
  • Embroidery > New York (State) > New York
  • Fabric pictures > New York (State) > New York
  • Gender-nonconforming people > Portraits
  • ART / General
  • Embroidery
  • Fabric pictures
  • Friendship
  • Sexual minorities
  • New York (State) > New York
Genre/Form
Portraits.
Note
  • "This book is published on occasion of the exhibition: LJ Roberts, Carry you with me: ten years of portraits" -- Colophon.
Contents
Foreword / by Sur Rodney (Sur) -- LJ Roberts in conversation with TT Takemoto & Tirza True Latimer -- An epic tribute / by Carmen Hermo -- The less I see me, the more I see us / By Theodore (ted) Kerr.
Call Number
JQG 22-140
ISBN
  • 9781945711145
  • 1945711140
OCLC
1263757206
Title
Carry you with me : ten years of portraits / LJ Roberts.
Publisher
Brooklyn (NY) : Pioneer Works, [2021]
Edition
First edition.
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Added Author
Roberts, LJ, 1980- artist.
Rodney, Sur, author.
Takemoto, T. T., interviewer.
Latimer, Tirza True, interviewer.
Hermo, Carmen, author.
Kerr, Theodore, author.
Research Call Number
JQG 22-140
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