Let Me Tell you About the Baes and the Bees, By Amber Robles-Gordon

Museums Review In the galleries: A colorful survey of Washington artists

July 30, 2017 in review

Amber Robles-Gordon’s “When a Honey Is Looking Just Right,”

East of the River

Although it doesn’t attempt to be comprehensive, Honfleur Gallery’s annual “East of the River Exhibition” usually offers a broad survey. This year brings a tighter focus, with only three contributors. Both Sheila Crider and Amber Robles-Gordon work with fabric and found objects. The art of painter Asha Elena Casey is less closely related, but she does inscribe textile-like patterns into thickly applied, mostly black-and-white pigment.

SPIRAL, RECOIL Group Exhibition Curated By Kayleigh Bryant-Greenwell

July 28, 2017 in exhibit

BV Rainbow, By Amber Robles-Gordon

This exhibition, curated by Kayleigh Bryant-Greenwell, engages with a legacy of black art spanning over 50 years through nine exciting contemporary visionaries. This collective body of work reflects on the black experience as artists and as Americans. Artists Holly Bass, Allana Clarke, Wesley Clark, Billy Colbert, Larry Cook, Jamea Richmond Edwards, Amber Robles-Gordon, Stanley Squirewell and Stephanie Williams create their work using a variety of media, style and technique.

June 29: Workshop with artist Amber Robles-Gordon

July 09, 2017 in exhibit

In many cultures, the talking stick is a symbol of democracy, a sacred object that ensures all voices will be heard. Join artist and Anacostia resident Amber Robles-Gordon in a hands-on creative workshop. Using Robles-Gordon's signature multi-colored textile strips, participants will fashion unique talking sticks that represent a personal memory or pressing issue on the theme of “home.” A guided conversation will provide participants an opportunity to put their talking sticks to use, sharing inspirations and reflections on what it means to call DC home in this particular moment, and the transformative act of art making. Appropriate for ages 12 and up. Refreshments will be provided

If You Lived Here.

June 17, 2017 in exhibit

An homage to a house

If YOU Lived Here seeks to commemorate the founding of this community, and also to reflect on how we live today. Visitors will draw parallels between the past and the present through a series of interactive, tactile, and creative activities.

The Mosaic Project: Amber Robles Gordon and Nathaniel Lewis

June 17, 2017 in exhibit

The Mosaic Project: The significance of art in the lives of our youth cannot be underestimated. Yet, just when research is finally emerging that supports this, budget cuts and curricular demands are threatening the foundation of creativity in our public schools. In order to fill that gap as well as enrich the community, Pennsylvania College of Art & Design developed The Mosaic Project, a multicultural exhibition and education program for students and families in Lancaster County.

11th Annual East of the River Exhibition

June 17, 2017 in exhibit

Exhibition: June 16 – August 5, 2017
Opening Reception: June 17, 2 – 5 pm
Panel Discussion: July 13, 6 – 9 pm

The East of the River Exhibition returns to the Honfleur Gallery for the 11th year! This annual show continues to provide a platform for visual artist emerging from Wards 7 and 8. This year Asha Elana Casey, Sheila Crider and Amber Robles-Gordon will present their all new mixed-media works that explore spirituality, identity, and repetition.

LIVING ON THE LAND, CURATED BY JAYME MCLELLAN

June 17, 2017 in exhibit

Features artists Colby Caldwell, Hasan Elahi, Margo Elsayd, Eve Hennessa, Peter Garfield, Amber Robles-Gordon, Rachel Schmidt, Noelle Tan, and Curtis Woody.

Official Reception with curator Jayme McLellan: Third Friday, July 21, 5-7pm

Third Friday Reception, June 16, 5-7pm

Identity and inspiration on display in 'i found god in myself'

March 17, 2017 in review

A view of the exhibitionÂ "i found god in myself," with works inspired by the choreopoems of Ntozake Shange's play "For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/ When the Rainbow is Enuf." The show is on view at the Houston Museum of African American Culture through April 15.

BMORE ART: Creative. Critical. Daily. Amber Robles-Gordon Visiting Artist At MC Daniel College

February 28, 2017 in exhibit

http://www.bmoreart.com

McDaniel hosts a visiting artist lecture by mixed-media artist Amber Robles-Gordon. Known for her use of found objects and textile to create assemblages, large-scale sculptures and installations, her work is representational of her experiences and the paradoxes within the female experience.

Co-Founders of Delusions of Grandeur at Prizm Art Fair

December 09, 2016 in exhibit

Contemporary Black Artist Movements: Artists Jamea Richmond-Edwards and Amber Robles-Gordon, Co-Founders of Delusions of Grandeur artist collective will speak of the relevancy, evolution and power of artist collectives and artistic movements. Richmond-Edwards and Robles-Gordon, parlayed a series of conversations about personal experiences in the art world, the cultural influence and legacy of Howard University, and the examination of artist group and movements such as Spiral, Black Artists of DC, Africobfra and the Black Arts Movement to build a contemporary art cannon.

Lest We Forget, Artist Talk at Galerie Myrtis →

October 31, 2016 in exhibit

The exhibition presented at Galerie Myrtis, Lest We Forget examines pivotal moments and figures in US 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.

Featured Artists
Larry Cook, Wesley Clark, Shaunte Gates, Delita Martin, Jamea Richmond-Edwards, Amber Robles-Gordon and Stan Squirewell

Curated by: Jarvis DuBois and Deirdre Darden

Opening Reception - i found god in myself: the 40th anniversary of Ntozake Shange’s for colored girls…

October 06, 2016 in exhibit

African American Museum in Philadelphia

Curated by Souleo

Join us for the opening of AAMP's latest special exhibition i found god in myself: the 40th anniversary of Ntozake Shange’s for colored girls. This two-gallery art exhibit celebrates the 40th anniversary of the choreopoem, for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf, and is curated by Souleo.

Through 20 commissioned artworks by artists including Renee Cox (in collaboration with Rafia Santana), Kimberly Mayhorn, Dianne Smith, Margaret Rose Vendryes and Danny Simmons the exhibition is a tribute to the Broadway play. Each work honors the individual poems and underscores their enduring significance in highlighting issues impacting the lives of women of color.

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.

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.