LJ Roberts, Chaplain Christopher L. Jones at Home in Harlem, 2017. Credit: Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University; Gift of Pamela and David Hornik.
Hales is delighted to announce that the Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University have acquired LJ Roberts’ Chaplain Christopher L. Jones at Home in Harlem (2017).
LJ Roberts (b. 1980 Royal Oak, Michigan, USA) creates large-scale textile installations, embroideries, artist books, and collages. Included in Roberts’ first solo retrospective Carry You With Me: Ten Years of Portraits which showed at the Cantor Arts Center in 2022, Chaplain Christopher L. Jones at Home in Harlem is a masterful example of Robert’s intricate, hand-stitched embroidery work. In these works, Roberts embroiders portraits of their friends, collaborators, lovers and cultural figures within the queer and trans communities. Roberts spent up to one year stitching each portrait within the series, taking inspiration from both photographs and memory. As much a tribute to the subjects as they are to the public and private places that provide safe spaces for vital exchange. The artist considers the series as a way of dismantling the heteronormative tendencies of portraiture.
March 1, 2024
