Her work is representational of her experiences and the paradoxes within the female experience.
Artist Statement
My artwork is a visual representation of my hybridism: a fusion of my gender, ethnicity, cultural, and social experiences. I intentionally impose colors, imagery, and materials that evoke femininity and tranquility with the intent of transcending or balancing a specific form. I associate working with light, color, and energy as a positive means to focus on the healing power found in the creative process. I believe colors have both feminine and masculine energies and each color represents a specific aspect of nature. I desire my artwork to embody my spiritual connection to color and project a sense of energy to positively affect others.Using found objects allows me to symbolically articulate the need to recycle energy and power inherent to discarded materials. Through my work I seek to examine the parallels between how humanity perceives its greatest resources, men and women verses how we treat our possessions and environment.
Bio
Amber Robles-Gordon is a mixed media artist. Her preferred medium is collage and assemblage. Her work is representational of her experiences and the paradoxes within the female experience. She focuses on fusing found objects to convey her own personal memories, inspired by nature, womanhood and her belief in recycling energy and materials. Robles-Gordon has over fifteen years of exhibiting and art educational experience.
She completed her Masters of Fine Arts from Howard University in November 2011, where she has received annual awards and accolades for her artwork. Since, several of her exhibitions have been reviewed in the Washington Post. She has recently been selected to present for the Under the Influence competition as part of the 30 Americans Exhibition at the Corcoran Gallery of Art.
She has been commissioned by the Smithsonian Anacostia Museum, WETA Television and Al Jazeera to teach workshops, give commentary and present about her artwork.
She was also commissioned by the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities, DCCAH to create a mural for the Windows in to DC project at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center and granted apprenticeship to create a public art installation with the DCCAH, D.C. Creates Public Arts Program. She has exhibited in California, Germany, Italy, Malaysia, New York, Ohio, Spain and throughout the Washington, D.C. Metropolitan area.
As of November 2004-July 2012 Robles-Gordon has been an active member of the Black Artists DC, (BADC) serving as exhibitions coordinator, Vice President and President. Robles-Gordon also serves as social advocate for the Washington DC area arts community. Her vision is to “create, prosper, and infuse personal and professional life interactions with the healing power of art.”