Linda Foard RobertsLinda Foard Roberts' work is deeply personal, rooted in memory, family and local histories, combined with philosophical inquiries about life, death, and basic human rights. Roberts is a recipient of a 2020 Guggenheim Fellowship in support of her projct LAMENT, a song of sorrow for those not heard.
In 2008 she was a recipient of a North Carolina Artist Fellowship. Over the years, her projects have been mined from her personal connection to nature, humanity, and family. Using 8" x 10" and 5" x 7" cameras and preferring the imperfections of old lenses and the history inherent within them, her work is metaphorical and layered, intending to cross language and cultural barriers.
Posing the environment as a reflection of ourselves, her photographs engage the transformative cycles that shape our lives, bound by time and what it means to be human, a foundation upon which we can all find common ground.
Roberts' first monograph, Passage, published by Radius Books (OP), represents a ten-year project that weaves together images and writings that explore the inevitable movement of time in life. Photographs from Roberts' current project, LAMENT, a song of sorrow for those not heard, have been seen in exhibitions at the Mint Museum: Responsibilities of Representing (2020-23) and W/ALLS: Defend, Divide and the Divine (2020), exhibited at the Annenberg Space for Photography, Los Angeles, California (2019), and SOCO Gallery paired with Hank Willis Thomas' Love Over Rules in the adjoining room. Photographs from this series are in the collections of The Mint Museum, Charlotte, North Carolina and The Columbus Museum, Columbus, Georgia. Divided in Death from this series has been published in the book, Black Civil War Soldier, a visual history of conflict and citizenship by Deborah Willis, Ph.D. Show Additional Fields
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