Adee Roberson

Adee Roberson (b. 1981, West Palm Beach, FL) is a Los Angeles-based artist who weaves sonic and familial archives with landscape, technicolor, rhythm, form, and spirit. She has exhibited and performed internationally, including Antenna Gallery; Art Gallery of Windsor, Ontario; Charlie James Gallery; Contemporary Art Center New Orleans; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; Portland Institute of Contemporary Art; Project Row Houses; Women’s Center for Creative Work, and Yerba Buena Center for the Arts. @adeeroberson

In West Palm Beach (2019), Adee Roberson explores her connection to Jamaica as she lived and experienced it through food, music, holidays, photos, and stories as a second-generation Jamaican living in the United States. Working with and through archival images, these particular works offer glimpses into familial histories and generational bonds that forge memories through specific sites, landscapes, and relationships. Roberson’s work reflects on the movements of black people throughout the Caribbean, North America, and West Africa and puts forth iterations of memory and place as archival gestures and explorations on the making/unmaking of home.

Artwork caption: Adee Roberson, Water Signs, featured in West Palm Beach installation, 2019, Screenprint on paper, 24 x 24 inches. Courtesy of the artist.