For The Armory Show 2024, Roberts Projects is pleased to present a selection of works that engage borders and boundaries—both material and metaphysical—as integral phenomena to the formation of personal and cultural identity. New and recent works by contemporary artists—including Luke Agada, Daniel Crews-Chubb, Lenz Geerk, Wangari Mathenge, Suchitra Mattai, Mia Middleton, Otis Kwame Kye Quaicoe, Wendy Red Star, Betye Saar and Kehinde Wiley—challenge the seemingly irreconcilable dualities of sameness and difference; center and periphery; the Self and the Other.

Produced through a unique succession of gestures that meaningfully build upon each other, Betye Saar’s mixed-media assemblages transform aesthetic objects with profound epistemic weight into mythical entities compounded by historic time. A highlight of our booth is Saar’s The Elements, a series of four painted silk banners that depict fire, earth, air and water in various forms alongside symbols from Saar’s singular visual lexicon.

Best known for his vibrant paintings of Black and Brown individuals from the diaspora that subvert the hierarchies of the Western art history, Kehinde Wiley will debut a new work at this year’s Armory Show. Evoking a disembodied collapsing of time and space, Luke Agada's paintings examine the impact of globalization on modes of cultural production distorted through the filter of surrealism.

Contending with the legacies of ethnographic art and Modernism, Daniel Crews-Chubb makes compelling works that embody a traditional expressionistic, painterly language amid a conceptual framework. Lenz Geerk’s psychologically-charged paintings employ a restrained color palette to heighten the emotional tension hidden beneath the surface of his fictionalized settings. 

Through compositions that pay homage to master artists of the Western canon, Wangari Mathenge’s lush paintings recreate domestic scenes from both her homeland of Kenya and the United States. Creating work that is deeply informed by her independent research, Wendy Red Star underscores the importance of preserving Native traditions, such as those of the Apsáalooke (Crow) tribe in which she was raised, by interrogating misrepresentations of Native people throughout flawed narratives from American history.

Connecting the works on view is a range of aesthetic responses collectively aligned behind a shared goal: to produce a transcendent encounter with the visual that catalyzes a spiritual and psychic transformation.

Roberts Projects booth is located at 316.

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For inquiries regarding availability, please contact David Daniels, Sales Director at 1.323.549.0223 or david@robertsprojectsla.com.

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