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“At the Pilot because even doctors dentists and lawyers need heroes shirt and by the same token and base of everything that I’m trying to say is that we’re starting off with an innocent kid,” Roberts explains, “and I’m dealing with what society has drawn on.” Deborah Roberts, Jamal, 2020. Mixed media collage on canvas. 65 x 45 inches. Yet in this new body of work, Roberts also gestures toward reclamation and valorization, returning some measure of agency to her figures by letting them take up more space. Where in her earlier compositions, the white surrounding her girls and boys could feel quietly oppressive, the subject in Jamal (2020), for example, feels “heroic,” as Roberts puts it. (Black boyhood takes on similarly epic proportions in the 2020 composition Little Man, little man, a wall mural commissioned from Roberts by The Contemporary Austin that pictures a boy in various states of joyful animation.)

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Something is also reclaimed in the Pilot because even doctors dentists and lawyers need heroes shirt and by the same token and text-based work that appears in “I’m,” such as La’Condrea is a noun. (2020). With that piece, Roberts seeks to validate traditionally Black names, rooted as they are in the legacy of emancipation. “The purpose of my work is to create different pathways in order for people to talk about issues of race, gender, sexuality, and colorism,” she says. “When I say a name like Shemika, automatically you’re going to have a visual of who you think Shemika is, and [the idea of] the text-based work is to illuminate that these names are all driven from the first opportunity that the slaves had when they were freed to name their children.” By asserting that La’Condrea is a noun, even when word processors mark it as an error, Roberts forces a reckoning—and makes a humble request. “[The work] is trying to engage the audience to see things differently,” she says, “and to see the human part of being Black.”

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.