ROBERTS PROJECTS AT THE ARMORY SHOW 2018
MARCH 8 - 11, 2018  
NEW YORK CITY

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Roberts Projects is pleased to participate in The Armory Show 2018 and presenting new work by Daniel Crews-Chubb, Jeffrey Gibson, James Hayward, Evan Nesbit, Ed Templeton, Evan Trine and Kehinde Wiley along with new and historic assemblages by Betye Saar.  

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Jeffrey Gibson: WITHOUT YOU I'M NOTHING

WITHOUT YOU I'M NOTHING, Jeffrey Gibson's large scale installation for Platform, is inspired by the histories of Ghost Dance shirts, worn across Native American cultures in ceremonies of peaceful resistance against white assimilation and cultural erasure. Gibson resurrects these legacies of clothing as contemporary shields, insisting that adornment can still empower. Imagery of Dakota Access Pipeline protests, personal guardian figures, and phrases of solidarity draw upon a wide range of influence: the aesthetic and rawness of club, mod, and punk music; pearly kings and queens; artists such as Sam Gilliam and Leigh Bowery; PowWow aesthetics and materials, textiles and craft; Ghost Dance shirts; and the power of fashion, drag, camp, and queerness. The installation takes its title from the 1990 Sandra Bernhard cult film Without You I'm Nothing in which she critiques how race is collectively spoken for and about. It's a timely analogy, one that insists that the burden of repudiating and correcting today's wrongs perpetuated by the doctrines of past conquest remains with us. Jeffrey Gibson: WITHOUT YOU I'M NOTHING is curated by Jen Mergel.