Marie Roberts, Frances and Zoom, 2020

The present work was chosen by David Cohen, publisher and editor of Artcritical, for the juried exhibition Pets of the Pandemic in 2020.

Marie Roberts

Francis and Zoom, 2020

Ink on Laid Paper. Framed. 

Unique

Hand signed, titled and dated on the back

Measurements 

Framed 11 by 11

Work 9 by 9 inches

 

NY-based painter, Marie Roberts has been the subject of several documentary films including “Sideshow Picasso” by Marilyn Agrelo, and the 2015 “This Side of Dreamland” by Joshua Glick and Patrick Reagan. She is included in Coney Island Lost and Found by Charles Denson, City Lights: Tales of New York by Dan Barry, and in media as diverse as The New York Times and TLC’s Cake Boss. She is a professor of art at Fairleigh Dickinson University.

 

Artist's Statement:

“Frances (and her room mates) are annoyed I have been using their (my) room in daytime to Zoom during the pandemic. Frances’ innovative take on life with roommates is a constant revelation of what a former stray, sick, disabled kitten can grow up to accomplish. Frances appears daily on IG @adventuresoffrances.” 

 

Marie A. Roberts

ARTIST IN RESIDENCE CONEY ISLAND USA

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Professor of Art, FDU 2001 – Present

Associate Professor, FDU 1995-2000

Assistant Professor, FDU, 1991-1995

 

EDUCATION

1981                M.F.A. Queens College, CUNY, N.Y.C., Painting

1976                B.A. Brooklyn College, CUNY, N.Y.C.

 

 

Selected Solo  and Two Person EXHIBITIONS & INSTALLATIONS

2018. Figureworks Galley, Williamsburg, Brooklyn, NY

2017.  Artlab Gallery, Snug Harbor Cultural Center, SI, NY

2014 Ripe Gallery, Huntington, NY

2012  Gallery at the Art Room, Bay Ridge, Brooklyn

          Blue Mountain Gallery, NYC, with Deborah Stern (October)

          Gallery SoBab, Seoul, Korea, with YoEuiJoo Kim, November 

2011   Dizzy’s, Brooklyn, NY curated by Radar Curatorial

2008    Brooklyn Museum, third floor rotunda, 7 banner paintings highlighting the Egyptian Collection, Rotund

2005. Newhouse Center for Contemporary Art, Snug Harbor Cultural Center, SI, NY

 

GROUP EXHIBITIONS & INSTALLATIONS

 

 

2017 - 2021 Coney Island: Visions of an American Dreamland, National Endowment for the Humanities on the Road, traveling exhibition until 2021

            Coney Art Walls, curated by Jeffrey Deitch

            Cat and Dog, Ossem Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

             In The Balance, Gallery Gaia, Brooklyn, NY

             Et Tu Brute, curaterd by Jamie Stearns, AED Underground

             Greetings, From Coney Island’, Mills Pond House Gallery, St James NY 4 person

 

2016   Coney Island:Visions of an American Dreamland 1861-2008, Brooklyn Museum, NY, The McNey Art Museum, San Antonio, Texas

            S

            Spare Time, part 2, Stephen Harvey Fine Art Projects, NYC

            Five Cents to Dreamland, NY Transit Museum

2015   Coney Island: An American Dreamland 1861-2008,  Wadsworth Atheneum Museum,    Hartford, Ct,  San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, Ca

            Sideshow, 32 Edgecomb Ave Gallery, Yale School of Art, New Haven, Ct.

             Coney Art Walls, curated by Jeffrey Deitch

 

 

Publications

2016   Carrier Pigeon Magazine, Vol.4,Issue 4, illustrations for "the Mirrored Mind"

 2012  Carrier Pigeon Magazine, six illustrations for “Cream of Tomato”

2009  Vox Pop Remembered, short essay & three drawings reproduced

2005  Rescued Tales, Ed by Fiona Seed, Short story & 6 illustration, 

2003  The Professa, James Taylor’s, Shocked & Amazed, Coney Island Issue #7Dolphin Moon Press,

 

 

Lectures

2015     Banner Painting Workshop, Yale School of Art, New Have, Ct.

              Panel Participant, Wadsworth Atheneum, Coney Island: An American Dreamland

              Banner Painting Workshop, The Brooklyn Museum

2014     The Feldston School, Coney Island and my role in its history.

              Fairfield University,  Fairfield, Ct at Coney Island Museum

              Wagner College, Drawing Animals, State  Island, NY and workshop

              Church of Monica series, Open Source Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

 

 

 

Grants, Backdrops, Commissions

2018.  Coney Iceland, Squidling Brothers Sideshow, Rykevic, Iceland

2015    Backdrop for the Battery, SanFrancisco, Ca.

2014   Bloomberg LC Business, Cover Illustration (not used)

           Rush Arts Foundation Holiday Gift, produced limited edition 4 color silkscreen 

 

Selected Collections

Metropolitan Transit Authority, N.Y.C.

The Village Voice, NYC

The William & Uytendale Scott Memorial Study  Collection; Bryn Mawr College

Lynrock Nursing Home, Brooklyn, NY

Williamsburg Art & Historical Society, Brooklyn,NY

Coney Island Museum, Brooklyn, NY

 Merck, Rahway-Linden, New Jersey

CNN Center, Atlanta, Ga

Di Domenico & Partners, architects

Feld Entertainment, NYC 

 

 

Media  

2018   Painters  of the Peculiar, Michapappa and Johnny Meah

2016   Fox Five News, Coney Art Walls with Thrive Collective

             Courier LifePublications, Coney Art Walls with Thrive  Collective

               Courier Life Publications, Coney Art Walls, solo wall.

2015      Wall Street Journal (reproduction)

               National Endowment for the Humanities Newsletter, Jan-Mar

               American Art Review, February (reproduction)

               Hartford Courant

               Museum Magazine(reproduction)