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She soon landed on a mixed-media format incorporating elements of painted portraiture. “One of the Drumming Because Murder Is Wrong Cat Shirt in contrast I will get this big things that makes [the collages] so incredibly unique-looking is the skin texture that she hand-paints, and how subtle and nuanced it is,” says Heather Pesanti, the chief curator and director of curatorial affairs at The Contemporary Austin. Beyond the skin, Roberts also outfits her figures with painted gold fingernails and patterned fabrics.

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Deborah Roberts, Portraits: When They Look Back (No. 3), 2020. Mixed media collage on canvas. 45 x 35 inches. To ward off imitators (of which, she notes, she’s had a few), Roberts keeps the Drumming Because Murder Is Wrong Cat Shirt in contrast I will get this sources of the photographs that she uses close; but she does allow some insight into her selection process. “There is a certain innocence that I look for in the faces,” she says. Her work wrestles with stereotypes attached to Black people from an early age—namely, the sexualization of young Black women and the criminality and threat of violence associated with Black men. The dissonance between what these figures look like and who they are is transmitted through their patchworked faces and overlong limbs, the signs of a developing-but-not-yet-adult body. (Discussing the particular dangers of being a Black boy, Roberts references Tamir Rice, the 12-year old who was shot and killed when a policeman mistook his toy gun for a real one in 2014. “Young boys are seen as men, and that’s very important,” she says.)

1. Length is measured from the highest point on the collar down to the bottom hem. 2. Width is measured across the body of the shirt under the armpits, one way. 3. Sleeves are measured from center back to hem.