Chris Roberts-Antieau

Chris Roberts-Antieau (born 1950) is an American fiber artist based in Michigan. She characterizes her work as "fabric paintings", composed of appliqué and embroidery. She also draws, paints, and produces mixed-media work.

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Early life and career

Chris Roberts-Antieau was born in 1950 in Brighton, Michigan. She was creative from a young age, but was introduced to her primary medium of sewing in a high school home economics class. Following a non-recommendation for college from a high school counselor, as well being told by an art teacher, "you'll never be an artist", Roberts-Antieau continued to create art on a self-taught basis.[1]

Chris entered her first art fair in the 1980s where she sold her first piece, a 3-D soft sculpture, for $20.[1][2] Chris continued to make fabric works, focusing on clothing, finding success and national representation at the American Craft Council fair in Baltimore, Maryland.[1][2] A friend suggested presenting her appliqué works in a frame, which became the primary work she produces to this day.[3][4]

Style

Roberts-Antieau describes her work as "fabric paintings".[5] They are appliqué and embroidery tapestries displayed in a wooden frame. She also works in mixed-media projects, such as her "Murder Houses", which are repurposed dollhouses depicting famous murder scenes, or her "Tragic Snowglobes", depicting tragic scenes in the traditionally joyful setting of a snowglobe.[6][4][7] Her work is largely characterized by humor, joy, and whimsical commentary, but following a bout with breast cancer in 2009, much of her work "pushed deeper into a place of introspection, addressing themes of personal mortality and interconnectedness."[8][9]

Galleries

Roberts-Antieau owns three galleries in which she displays her own work. She opened her first gallery in 2010 in New Orleans, Louisiana. After participating in the New Orleans Jazz Fest, Roberts-Antieau and her assistant found a space for rent in the French Quarter, where they opened a month-long pop-up gallery. Following a successful month, the space was made permanent.[10][11] She has since opened a second gallery in New Orleans and a third in Santa Fe, New Mexico.[12][13]

Filmography

A Love Letter to Tom Waits: The Life of Chris Roberts-Antieau - A documentary about the life and work of Roberts-Antieau.[14][15]

Publications
  • Sew Far: The Fantastic, Incredible and Amazing Life and Work of Chris Roberts-Antieau[16][17]

References
  1. "Our Visionaries - Chris Roberts Antieau".
  2. Maher, Kit (July 2, 2017). "Celebrities rave about artist who got start at Ann Arbor Art Fair". MLive.
  3. Sekoff, Hallie (September 29, 2012). "Chris Roberts-Antieau's 'Fabric Paintings' Are Bright, Ingenious, And Downright Kalman-esque". Huffington Post.
  4. Perrett, Kelsey (July 8, 2014). "The dark and the light side: Edgartown's Antieau Gallery". The Martha's Vineyard Times.
  5. Steinmetz, Katy (May 2, 2013). "Joy and a Bit of Scary: The Whimsical Work of Chris Roberts-Antieau". Time.
  6. "Chris Roberts-Antieau's "Fabric Paintings"". Juxtapoz. June 16, 2016.
  7. McCauley, Mary Carole (October 23, 2018). "The good, bad and horrific of parenting on display at Baltimore's American Visionary Art Museum". The Baltimore Sun.
  8. "New Orleans Living". October 2013.
  9. Deshotel, Kathleen (Aug 27, 2014). "New Orleans artist stitches together personal experience, 'strangeness' of culture". The New Orleans Advocate.
  10. Silva, Valentina (March 2, 2017). "NOLA Artist Chris Roberts-Antieau Loves Our Secret Pamphlets!". Zingerman's Community of Businesses.
  11. "The Guide: Galleries and Antiques". Where New Orleans: 43. May 2011.
  12. "Magazine Street Merchant's Association". Magazine Street Merchant's Association.
  13. "Inside Santa Fe". Inside Santa Fe.
  14. Eberbach, Jennifer (Sep 21, 2010). "Nationally known Manchester artist Chris Roberts-Antieau's life, art captured on film". The Ann Arbor News.
  15. "IMDB: A Love Letter to Tom Waits: The Life of Chris Roberts-Antieau". IMDB.
  16. Sew Far: The Fantastic, Incredible, and Amazing Life and Work of Chris Roberts-Antieau. Chris Roberts-Antieau Publishing. 2007.
  17. Francine, Prose (December 2008). "Reading Room: Give Them the World". O, The Oprah Magazine: 183.
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