#Roberta Dorsett

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ROBERTA DORSETT

Artist Statement

My photographic practice has evolved over time but has always been anchored in the central theme of presenting a view of what is both captivating and disquieting.

Whether through subtle, delicate colors and dreamlike compositions or stark monochromatic images, I aim to photograph moments that reveal the complex beauty and darkness of the human experience. 

In my earlier work, Intimate Moments, I sought to offer a portrayal of black individuals, challenging negative stereotypes and capturing the warmth and complexity of family life. This project, in turn, led me to the recent work, Sleepwalking, which draws inspiration from slasher horror films. Here, I aim to translate the visceral thrills of these films into visual form, creating images blurring the line between assumed safety and terror.

My creative process is influenced by a diverse range of artists, including Hitchcock, ’70s and ’80s slasher films, and photographers such as Carrie Mae Weems, Weegee, and Deana Lawson. These influences have shaped my approach to art-making and the techniques and strategies I use to create my images.

Ultimately, my hope is that my work resonates with viewers on a visceral level. Whether photographing abandoned industrial wastelands, capturing intimate family scenes, or juxtaposing idealized depictions with an undercurrent of danger, I aim to create images that offer a glimpse into a world where allure and risk are intertwined.

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Ann Schaumburger, “Silver Moon in Darkened Sky House”, 2023, Flashe on wood

The three exhibitions currently on view at A.I.R. Gallery in Brooklyn all focus on homes in unique ways. In the first gallery, Ann Schaumburger’s paintings of houses for New Work continue her exploration of color.

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For over fifty years, Schaumburger has used the house as a basic structure—a scaffold—for exploring how colors interact with one another. Schaumburger builds her houses with blocks of four pigments, using stencil brushes and tape to fill each house with modular forms. Influenced by the theories of Josef Albers, Schaumburger’s approach to color is meticulous yet playful. Different colors dazzle and dance when placed in proximity, creating a sense of surprise.

The paintings in this new body of work depart from Schaumburger’s earlier explorations in one key detail: the houses are now mounted on wheels. This choice was inspired by Schaumburger’s reading of the biography of Henry David Thoreau, whose family had attached wheels to their domicile, allowing them to transport the house across different sites in Concord, Massachusetts. “The idea of taking a solid house, attached to the ground, and letting it roll away,” Schaumburger says, “seems both comical and deeply suggestive of our times.”

Schaumburger has described her color choices as an attempt to “solve an aesthetic problem.” Yet the work is not entirely abstract. Titles like Forest House Under Summer Sky and Moonscape Moving House gesture toward the fact that certain color relationships become evocative of different seasons, places, and times of day. All of the paintings in the exhibition feature a crescent or small globe in the upper left or right quadrant. Sometimes, this globe is rendered in metallic gold or bronze, recalling the sun. Other times, it is a lunar silver. The round shape of the globe mirrors the house’s circular wheels. Just as the earth rotates around the sun, the wheels rotate around their own axles, allowing the house to move.

The wheeled house becomes a spirited metaphor for Schaumburger’s practice. Dynamic rather than stationary, it embodies the liveliness and energy of Schaumburger’s color choices, as well as the open-ended nature of her process.

Roberta Dorsett’s photos for Sleepwalking explore isolation and uneasiness in her family’s suburban home. (pictured below)

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Dorsett’s Sleepwalking is a series of photographs examining isolation in the suburbs and how a sense of danger often accompanies seemingly idyllic environments. The work depicts three women, Dorsett’s aunt, her cousin, and Dorsett herself, occupying the shared space of a suburban home in Connecticut. Tension arises from the camera’s interaction with the women. The camera acts as an intrusive person, an interloper, and a voyeur as it captures the women in moments of discomfort and vulnerability.

In Dorsett’s previous work, she took on the role of family historian, photographing moments of in-betweenness that result in candid and uncontrived images. Her obsession with taking photographs of her family is driven by their lack of extant family albums or other visual documentation. Because of the family’s socioeconomic status, photography was considered a luxury and only done for special occasions. Moreover, Dorsett’s mother had to leave behind her family’s photographic history when she immigrated from Jamaica to the United States.

Dorsett initially intended Sleepwalking to be a straightforward documentation of her aunt and cousin’s experience as first-time Black homeowners. But she found herself drawn into the project’s narrative and began photographing her family in a more constructed and story-driven way, drawing inspiration from slasher and horror films. Dorsett captures the visceral thrills of these types of films by continuing to utilize her family to explore the concepts of voyeurism and anxiety. The single-family home, once a symbol of milestone achievement, now becomes a surreal site of both safety and terror. As she stood behind and in front of the camera, registering the uneasiness and distress of these three women inside their home, Dorsett dreamed up a distorted reality and asked herself, “Am I awake or sleepwalking?”

Finally, Denisse Griselda Reyes multimedia installation for Did you have a hard time finding me?  explores home and identity using a combination of original artwork and family archives.

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Featuring short films and familial ephemera alongside a new body of paintings, this exhibition humorously meditates on questions of self-formation, reparative representation, and archival preservation, inviting us to dwell in the absurdity these ambitions unintentionally generate. This is Reyes’s first solo exhibition in New York City.

Presenting what Reyes has called a “maximalist constellation of memory,” the exhibition juxtaposes materials from their family archives with paintings and multimedia projections within an installation space that recalls, yet does not perfectly reproduce, the domestic interiors of Reyes’s family. Anchoring this exhibition is a short film that ties together two threads. First, the border crossings of Reyes’s grandmother Anita that were necessitated by the peril of the Salvadoran Civil War, and this history’s impact on Reyes’s mother. Second, the queer dating life of Reyes’s indignant and savvy alter-ego, Griselda. Part-narrator, part-drag-persona, part-survival-strategy, Griselda offers Reyes a means to dictate the terms of their own representation against the expectations that constrict queer Latinx artists in the United States. Still, Griselda is also beholden to identitarian demands. Reyes allows their avatar to straddle the line of spectacle, flirting with failure, acknowledging that self-formation might be an impossible endeavor. By juxtaposing Griselda’s exploits with the narrative of their grandmother, Reyes interrogates whether familial, social, and historical processes have the final word on what generates a self.

Reyes has produced Griselda as a mediating figure—one who negotiates their own identity between femininity and non-binary gender, and who personifies the absurdity of any singular narrative of origin. In its plenitude and play, the exhibition exceeds the ostensible facticity of the familial and historical archive. Featuring new paintings that hazily recreate family photographs, a vitrine full of childhood teeth that parodies genres of museal presentation, screens that toggle between home videos and the simulation of archival footage, and striking blue-green walls that recall the past domestic spaces of Reyes’s family in El Salvador, the exhibition transforms processes of preservation into acts of mythmaking. The exhibition is less a recreation of the artist’s family’s domiciles than a space of critical reflection and ambiguity. Guests are invited to join in this meditation—and may find their own notions of selfhood implicated as a result.

These exhibitions close 5/19/24.

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Famous Birthdays on April, 7

Adrian Beltre Baseball Player 41 years old Net-worth: $95 Million

Alexis Jordan Pop Singer 28 years old Net-worth: $6 Million

Alexis Love Reality Star 32 years old Net-worth: $400 Thousand

Andrew Sachs TV Actor NA Net-worth: $10 Million

Bill Bellamy Movie Actor 55 years old Net-worth: $8 Million

Bobby Doerr Baseball Player NA Net-worth: $5 Million

Buster Douglas Boxer 60 years old Net-worth: $15 Million

Christopher Darden Lawyer 64 years old Net-worth: $2 Million

Clarke Peters TV Actor 68 years old Net-worth: $1.5 Million

David Frost TV Show Host NA Net-worth: $100 Million

David Otunga Wrestler 40 years old Net-worth: $10 Million

Dominique Rodgers-cromartie Football Player 34 years old Net-worth: $6 Million

Ed Speleers Movie Actor 32 years old Net-worth: $4 Million

Eric Wareheim Comedian 44 years old Net-worth: $2.5 Million

Franck Ribery Soccer Player 37 years old Net-worth: $70 Million

Grace Hightower Entrepreneur 65 years old Net-worth: $20 Million

Gregg Jarrett Journalist 65 years old Net-worth: $10 Million

Heather Burns Movie Actress 45 years old Net-worth: $8 Million

Jackie Chan Movie Actor 66 years old Net-worth: $400 Million

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Jerry Brown Politician 82 years old Net-worth: $10 Million

John Oates Rock Singer 72 years old Net-worth: $40 Million

Kevin Alejandro TV Actor 44 years old Net-worth: $2 Million

Mike Gallagher Radio Host 60 years old Net-worth: $3 Million

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Russell Crowe Movie Actor 56 years old Net-worth: $100 Million

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Stan Winston Director NA Net-worth: $10 Million

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Tim Wright Football Player 30 years old Net-worth: $2 Million

Tony Dorsett Football Player 66 years old Net-worth: $5 Million

Wayne Rogers TV Actor NA Net-worth: $75 Million

Christian Fuchs Soccer Player 34 years old Net-worth: $18 Million

Curtis Snow Rapper 28 years old Net-worth: $300 Thousand

Daniel Berger Golfer 27 years old Net-worth: $12 Million

Danny Clinch Photographer 56 years old Net-worth: $5 Million

Jason Ralph TV Actor 34 years old Net-worth: $2 Million

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