Or Austin native Deborah Roberts, whose current Texas debut museum exhibit, Deborah Roberts: I’m, on view at the Contemporary Austin through 15 August, doesn’t feel like a coming home moment. Courtesy the artist and Stephen Friedman Gallery, London © DEBORAH ROBERTS I spoke with each artist last month over email, and during our conversations, Roberts, Nickerson and Kamra let us into their worlds, and expressed thoughts, intentions and truths.ĭeborah Roberts at the Rauschenberg Residency in Captiva, Florida, 2019. In each of their collective practices and approaches, Roberts, Nickerson and Kamra narrate the multiplicity and eminence of Blackness.
Kamra fuses ideas of care, softness, green spaces and futurist thought to propel Black and POC queer and trans artists to new artistic heights. Haleigh Nickerson, meanwhile, visualizes Black womxn as womxn warriors who unlock self-contained powers to simply exist in the world, seen in her fantastical photography and wonderfully womanist installations. Roberts celebrates the sacredness of Black children – their glee and their wisdom – through the lens of mixed media collage, portraying them with playful body language and fanciful clothing. This exaltation of Blackness, one so essential and critical, translates into the work of intergenerational artists and creatives Deborah Roberts, Haleigh Nickerson and Kamra. Rae’s sincere and heartfelt statement has since floated through the interwebs and continues to be proudly used by Black folx online. ’m rootin’ for everybody Black!” proclaimed actress and multi-media mogul Issa Rae at the 2017 Emmys, clad in a sumptuous red asymmetrical gown, in a now-viral moment.
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