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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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- 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\u0027s friends, collaborators and lovers within New York City\u0027s queer and trans communities. Stitched entirely by hand and typically completed during transit on subway trains, these textile works -- culminating in Roberts\u0027 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
- 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.
- ISBN
- 9781945711145
- 1945711140
- LCCN
- 99990317326
- OCLC
- on1263757206
- 1263757206
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries