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 a renowned 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. In addition to her embroidered tapestries, 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 seventh-grade home economics class. She briefly enrolled in an high school art class but eventually dropped out and did not attend college.[2][3]
Roberts-Antieau's career as an artist 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 appliqueing 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]
While at the New Orleans Jazz Festival Craft Fair, she and her assistant, Chris Redden, visited the French Quarter. Roberts-Antieau spotted a “For Rent” sign in the window of a gallery on Royal Street and Redden inquired about the space. The gallery had been in operation since 2010 and moved further into the French Quarter after Hurricane Ida flooded the original location in 2021.[citation needed]
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.[6]
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.[7]
Galleries
[edit]Chris Roberts-Antineau currently owns two galleries and a frame shop. The first gallery opened in the French Quarter of New Orleans in 2010 and is located at 719 Royal Street. The New Orleans frame shop initially operated as a small gallery and frame shop on Magazine Street and moved to 715 Camp Street in mid-2022. The Santa Fe gallery, originally located at 134 Water Street at Santa Fe Plaza, opened in 2017. In 2021, it moved to a larger location at 130 Lincoln Avenue.[citation needed]
Select Solo and Group Exhibitions
[edit]2021 Healing And The Art Of Compassion (And Lack Thereof!) American Visionary Art Museum. Baltimore,
MD
2020 The Art Of Play. Antieau Gallery. Santa Fe, NM
2019 The 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 in 2021rober
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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
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
SELECTED ART FAIRS
2019 Market Art + Design. Hamptons, NY
Superfine! Washington, DC
2018 Superfine! Washington, DC
Texas Contemporary. Houston, TX
2017 SCOPE, Art Basel. Miami FL
LA Art Show. Los Angeles, CA
2016 SCOPE, Art Basel. Miami FL
LA Art Show. Los Angeles, CA
2015 SCOPE, Art Basel. Miami FL
LA Art Show. Los Angeles, CA
2014 LA Art Show. Los Angeles, CA
Art Toronto. Toronto, Ontario, Canada
2013 SCOPE, Art Basel. Miami, FL
Houston Art Fair. Houston TX
LA Art Show. Los Angeles, CA
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
Filmography
[edit]A Love Letter to Tom Waits: The Life of Chris Roberts-Antieau - A documentary about the life and work of Roberts-Antieau.[8][9]
Publications
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Steinmetz, Katy (2013-05-02). "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 2024-09-30.
- ^ Perrett, Kelsey (2014-07-08). "The dark and the light side: Edgartown's Antieau Gallery". The Martha's Vineyard Times. Retrieved 2024-09-18.
- ^ "Chris Roberts-Antieau thinks art schools often destroy innate creativity and many student artists along with it". www.arttimesjournal.com. Retrieved 2024-11-18.
- ^ "Chris Roberts-Antieau, telling stories with fabric". Retrieved 2024-11-18.
- ^ Burton, Elizabeth (2023-09-24). "From Stella Jones to Callan Contemporary: Eight Captivating New Orleans Art Galleries". Design Dash. Retrieved 2024-11-20.
- ^ Steinmetz, Katy (2013-05-02). "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 2024-11-20.
- ^ "Antieau Gallery". Antieau Gallery. Retrieved 2024-11-20.
- ^ Eberbach, Jennifer (Sep 21, 2010). "Nationally known Manchester artist Chris Roberts-Antieau's life, art captured on film". The Ann Arbor News. Archived from the original on 2010-09-24.
- ^ "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.