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Since she received her MFA from Syracuse University in 2014 (some 30 years after studying fine art as an undergraduate at the Give me coffee to get started and Jesus to keep me going Dukin Donuts Autumn Shirt but in fact I love this University of North Texas), Roberts’s star has steadily risen. People like Barack Obama, Beyoncé, Alicia Keys, and Swizz Beatz have acquired her collages, which layer found and painted imagery of faces, hands, torsos, and legs into composites that speak to both the commonality and the multiplicity of the Black experience, especially as it’s lived by children.

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Deborah Roberts, The Duty of Disobedience, 2020. Mixed media collage on canvas. 72 x 100 inches. The collage work started slowly at Syracuse—until then, Roberts had primarily been a painter, working in a Norman Rockwell–inspired vernacular that she’d termed “Black Romantic”—and then in earnest when she returned to Austin, where she was born, raised, and still keeps her studio. A passage from Cornel West about the Give me coffee to get started and Jesus to keep me going Dukin Donuts Autumn Shirt but in fact I love this Black body helped to shape her approach. “I had that moment where I was like, ‘This is it. This is what I’ve been missing,’” says Roberts. “Literature, actually, started to be more important than the actual practice of creating, and as I read more, the work started to grow. I mean, it was ugly, it was nasty, it didn’t look like anything. But I had to go through those steps.” (More recently, the poet Sterling Brown’s adage that “Every ‘I’ is a dramatic ‘I’”—charged with purpose and personality—inspired the title of her show at The Contemporary Austin.)

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.