JOSIE LOVE ROEBUCK
JOSIE LOVE ROEBUck

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Josie Love Roebuck (b. 1995) is an interdisciplinary artist from Chattanooga, TN. Her process addresses the contemporary complexity of identifying as biracial through symbolizing pain and triumph, exclusion, and acceptance. Combining embroidery and painting to create emotional narratives, Roebuck often reflects on her own childhood to convey stories of her experiences and that of her family’s. 

Roebuck’s process itself is symbolic to the re-awakening of memory. Through the repetition of sewing - pushing and pulling needles, nails or awls through material - she considers the painful process in reliving trauma. Symbolizing the stages of struggle in the path to healing, Roebuck uses layers and shapes that fade the figure into camouflage, which acts as patterns of protection. The resulting images show the duality of pain and triumph, exclusion and acceptance. 

Josie Love Roebuck

B. 1995, CHATANOOGA, TN

Select Works

Memories of Braided Lives,
I, II, III
BLOSSOM III

Blossom III, Screenprint, polyfil, decorative paper, upcyled fabric, yarn, soft pastel, and fabric on canvas, 48 x 34 in.

Roebuck is currently teaching at the University of Cincinnati where she received her M.F.A (2021). She received her B.F.A with an emphasis in drawing and painting, from the University of Georgia (2019). Roebuck has exhibited at NADA House, NY with LatchKey Gallery, Denny Dimin Gallery, NY, Christie's at Rockefeller Plaza in collaboration with 1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair. 

Other exhibitions include, Kunstheille Krems Art Museum, Austria (2022) and Akron Art Museum, (2021). Her work is part of numerous private and public collections most notably, A. Boafo, Accra, Ghana, T. El Glaoui, London, UK, Jimenez-Colón Collection, San Juan, Puerto Rico Beth Rudin DeWoody, Florida, A. Shariat, Vienna, Austria, C. Shen, Brooklyn, NY and Espacio Tacuarí, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Additional Works

Curriculum Vitae

 Bachelor’s of Fine Arts, 2019

Lamar Dodd School of Arts, University of Georgia

Master’s of Fine Arts, 2021

University of Cincinnati

Solo Exhibition, 2021

Magnificently Willful, NADA House, Gov. Island, NYC

Group Exhibition,
2021

Kunst Halle Krems, Austria

Group Exhibition,
2022

Knotted Ties, 1.54 Contemporary African Art Fair, NYC