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American mixed media visual artist
Amber Robles-Gordon (born 1977
San Juan ,
Puerto Rico ) is an American
mixed media
visual artist .
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[2] She resides in
Washington, DC and predominantly works with found objects and textiles to create assemblages, large-scale sculptures, installations and public artwork.
She received a BS in 2005 from
Trinity College , in Washington, DC and subsequently an MFA (Painting) in 2011 from
Howard University , also in Washington, DC.
[3] Robles-Gordon has been a key member of the Black Artists DC, (BADC) serving as exhibitions coordinator, Vice President and President.
[4] Robles-Gordon is also the co-founder of Delusions of Grandeur Artist Collective.
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Robles-Gordon has exhibited widely in the US, Europe, and Asia.
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[7] In 2010 she was granted an apprenticeship with the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities to create a public art installation as part of the D.C. Creates Public Arts Program.
[8] She was subsequently also commissioned to create temporary and permanent public art installations for the
Washington Projects for the Arts , the Northern Virginia Fine Arts Association (NVFAA), the Humanities Council of Washington, D.C., Howard University, and the
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture .
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In a 2018 review of her two-person show at the Morton Fine Art Gallery in Washington, DC,
The Washington Post noted that "Robles-Gordon, a D.C. native, is known for hanging strands of textiles and other found objects in intricate arrangements... Whether seen as cosmic or botanical, the artist's circling compositions exalt natural cycles."
[9] A few years earlier, The Washington Post had observed that "Working entirely with found objects, the Caribbean-rooted local artist arrays ribbons and scraps on (mostly) wire frameworks. The result is a riot of colors and patterns, evoking the tropics while playing on the contrast between the rigid frames and malleable fabric."
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1995 The Art , The Brittany, Arlington, VA
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1997 The Artwork of A. Robles-Gordon , Dance Place Exhibition Space, Washington, DC
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2007 Can You Free Me? , Ramee’ Gallery, Washington, DC
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2010 Matrices of Transformation ,
Michael Platt Studio Gallery, Washington, DC
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2011 Milked , National League of American Penn Woman, Washington, DC
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2011 Wired , Installation and Exhibit, Pleasant Plains Workshop, Washington, DC
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2012 Milked , Riverviews Art Space, Lynchburg, Virginia
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2012 With Every Fiber of My Being , Honfleur Gallery, Washington, DC
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2017 Arts Center/Gallery Delaware State University,
Dover, DE
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2017 Pennsylvania College of Art and Design,
Lancaster, PA
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2018 Kohl Gallery at Washington College,
Chestertown, MD
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2018 Third Eye Open ,
Morton Fine Art , Washington, DC
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2020 American University (upcoming),
American University Museum at Katzen Arts Center, Washington, DC
Museum and University Group Shows
2006 Mother and Child: Expression of Love , Smithsonian Anacostia Museum and Center for African American History, Washington, DC
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2006 Sistahs, In Our Own Words , Banneker Douglass Museum, Annapolis, MD
2007 A Creative Profile: Artist of the East Bank , Smithsonian Anacostia Museum and Center for African American History, Washington, DC
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2009 Colorblind/Colorsight , The Rotunda Gallery at American University, Washington, DC
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2009 Migrations: BADC Exhibit , Luther Collage, Decorah, Iowa
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2010 Global Art Buzz , University of California, Washington Center, Washington, DC
2011 Transformer Silent Auction Exhibition, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
2015 Personal Patterns , Montgomery College, Takoma Park, MD
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2016 Arts for Justice ,
American University Museum , Katzen Center, Washington, DC
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2017 Living on the Land , Salisbury University Art Gallery, Salisbury, MD
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2019 The Path of Terminator Crossing and Juxtaposing Whiteness , American Academy, Rome, Italy
2021
Successions: Traversing US Colonialism , American University Museum, Washington, DC.
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Judith A. Hoffberg Archive Library, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA
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Masterpiece Miniature Art, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
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Capital One Bank, McLean, Virginia
City of Washington, DC
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Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, New York, NY
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The Gautier Family Collection, Washington, DC
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