LJ Roberts is an artist and writer who creates large-scale textile installations, intricate embroideries, artist books, collages, and mixed-media sculptures. Their work illuminates oft-erased and unacknowledged queer and trans histories, narratives, people, and places. Roberts creates conceptual and geographical maps and amplifies non-linear stories of queer culture and kinships that traverse the past, present, and future through material deviance and re-imaging craft practices.
Work by LJ Roberts.
The artist has a particular interest in how queer and trans people encounter freedom, fear, possibilities, and perils while traveling on the road and living nomadically. Roberts has been active in HIV/AIDS activism for over 20 years and has produced numerous collaborative projects that address the ongoing AIDS pandemic.
Cohosted with the Fine Art Junior Seminar. Visiting Artist talks are free and open to the public on a space-available basis.
Funded through the generous support of the TD Charitable Foundation.