Video of AMBER ROBLES-GORDON’s latest series “Place of Breath and Birth”
Amber Robles-Gordon
Amber’s artwork is based on her personal narrative and the intersections of womanhood, patriarchy, hybridism, and Americanism.
Her intention is to further contextualize her narrative and artwork within the political, socioeconomic, and environmental threads that define, control, alienate and/or mistreat Puerto Ricans and Afro-Puerto Ricans in particular.
Place of Breath and Birth
A foundational symbology of this body of work is the Fiscus Elastica commonly known as the Rubber Tree, Rubber Fig or Rubber Plant.
The second most important symbolic layer of the work are the depictions and interpretations of the transitions of day to night and night to day.
“Throughout some of the artworks, I am a figure, a witness to the beauty and complexity of the Puerto Rican landscape”
“Ultimately, I hope this narrative and artwork gives voice to others who walk in brownness—who breathe within a female form, and/or who do not quite fit the norms…yet are Bold and Proud.”
Amber Robles-Gordon’s artwork will be presented by TAFETA at the 1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair in October 2020.
Morton Fine Art: curator's notes 