Chris Roberts-Antieau

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Chris Roberts-Antieau
Chris Roberts-Antieau
Born	(1950-11-18) November 18, 1950 (age 73) Michigan, U.S.
Known for	Fiber art
Children	1

Chris Lee Roberts-Antieau (born November 18, 1950) is an American fiber artist based in Michigan. She characterizes her work as "embroidered tapestries," composed of fabric appliqué, thread painting, and hand embroidery. She also draws, paints, and produces mixed-media work.

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Roberts-Antieau was born and raised in Michigan. She is the daughter of Finch Lee Roberts and Rosemary Lee Roberts, and has 3 siblings. She has one child, Noah Antieau.^{[citation needed]}

Roberts-Antieau learned to sew in 7th grade Home Economics class. She briefly enrolled in an art class but eventually dropped out, questioning why the teacher wanted her to replicate their style. She did not attend college.^[1]

Her career as an artist began in the early 1980s, when she began sewing three-dimensional sculptures of circus folk, trapeze artists, and strong men, each sculpture taking over 24 hours to create. People began to notice her work and she began selling them at a craft fair for $18 each. She then took an appliqué class, learning to interpret her pencil sketches and paintings into fabric art. Roberts-Antieau began appliqueing her drawings onto fabric, creating a line of vests, jackets, and handbags with whimsical designs. To explore more about her abilities, she traveled the country displaying her work throughout the craft circuit. This is when a prominent retailer out of New York City was able to pick her line.^{[citation needed]}

While at the New Orleans Jazz Festival Craft Fair, she and her assistant, Chris Redden, took a trip through the French Quarter. Roberts-Antieau spotted a “For Rent” sign in the window of a gallery on Royal Street, and on a whim, called the number. Chris inquired for the space to see if it might work out. This gallery on the Royal Street has been in operation since 2010, having moved closer into the French Quarter after Hurricane Ida flooded the original gallery in 2021.^{[citation needed]}

With the gallery in her direct ownership, Roberts-Antieau gained more control of her sale and allowed her to spend more time in her Michigan studio. After a breast cancer diagnosis, she continued her work and began to create from a more introspective viewpoint. Her works reflecting joy, some simple, sweet and comical moments with animals, Roberts-Antieau’s vision opened to the more poignant everyday experiences.^{[citation needed]}

In 2017, Roberts-Antieau and her team traveled to Santa Fe, NM for another “Pop-Up” experience. It was met with the same enthusiastic response by locals and tourists, and the Santa Fe gallery was born.^{[citation needed]}

Chris Roberts-Antieau currently owns two galleries and a frame shop, solely dedicated to framing her art. The first gallery opened in the French Quarter of New Orleans in 2010 and is located at 719 Royal Street. The New Orleans frame shop began as a small gallery and frame shop on Magazine Street and moved to 715 Camp Street in mid 2022. The Santa Fe gallery started at 134 Water Street in the heart of the Santa Fe Plaza in 2017. In 2021 the gallery moved to a larger location at 130 Lincoln Avenue and holds an annual Art Retreat.^{[citation needed]}

2021 Healing And The Art Of Compassion (And Lack Thereof!)  American Visionary Art Museum. Baltimore,

MD

2020 The Art Of Play. Antieau Gallery. Santa Fe, NM

2019 The Secret Life Of Earth: Alive! Awake! (and possibly really angry!). American Visionary Art Museum. Baltimore,

MD

Dreaming And Doing. Antieau Gallery, Santa Fe, NM

50th Jazz & Heritage Festival. Antieau Gallery, New Orleans, LA

2018 Parenting: An Art Without A Manual. American Visionary Art Museum. Baltimore, MD

Mind and Hands. Gallery 81435. Telluride Arts District, Telluride, CO

The Myth of Certainty. Antieau Gallery. New Orleans, LA + Santa Fe, NM

2017 Ad Lucem. Gallery 81435. Telluride Arts District, Telluride, CO

New Work. Antieau Gallery, New Orleans, LA

Hey Asheville. Horse + Hero, Asheville, NC

James Brown’s Funeral. Antieau Gallery, Santa Fe, NM

Yum! The History, Fantasy and Future of Food. American Visionary Art Museum. Baltimore, MD

Sunny’s Calicoon Pop. Calicoon, NY

2016 Night Flying. Antieau Gallery. New Orleans, LA

Ephemeral Nature. Kohler Art Center. Sheboygan, WI

The Big Hope Show. American Visionary Art Museum. Baltimore, MD

The New Orleanian. Heron Arts. San Francisco, CA

Two person Exhibition. Chelsea Underground Gallery

Gumbo: A Celebration of Louisiana Art. Jeannie Taylor Folk Art Gallery. Sanford, FL

2015 Small Indignities. Red Truck Gallery. New Orleans, LA

Louisiana Contemporary. Ogden Museum of Southern Art.  New Orleans, LA

2014 Phantom Limb. Antieau Gallery. New Orleans, LA

Human, Soul & Machine: The Coming Singularity. American Visionary Art Museum. Baltimore, MD

2013 Gathering Stars. Antieau Gallery. New Orleans, LA

Hard Times in Mini Mall. Shooting Gallery. San Francisco, CA  

The Art of Storytelling: Lies Enchantment, Humor and Truth.  American Visionary Art Museum. Baltimore, MD

2011 What Makes Us Smile. American Visionary Art Museum. Baltimore, MD

SELECTED ART FAIRS

2019 Market Art + Design. Hamptons, NY

Superfine! Washington, DC

2018 Superfine! Washington, DC

Texas Contemporary. Houston, TX

2017 SCOPE, Art Basel. Miami FL

LA Art Show.  Los Angeles, CA

2016 SCOPE, Art Basel. Miami FL

LA Art Show.  Los Angeles, CA

2015 SCOPE, Art Basel. Miami FL

LA Art Show. Los Angeles, CA

2014 LA Art Show. Los Angeles, CA

Art Toronto. Toronto, Ontario, Canada

2013 SCOPE, Art Basel. Miami, FL

Houston Art Fair. Houston TX

LA Art Show. Los Angeles, CA

UWF Pensacola Museum of Art, Pensacola, FL.

American Visionary Art Museum, Baltimore, MD

Boxing Hall of Fame, Canastota, NY

House of Representatives, Washington, DC

Smithsonian Museum of American Art, Washington, DC

21c Museum Hotel, Oklahoma City, OK

21c Museum Hotel, Durham, NC

A Love Letter to Tom Waits: The Life of Chris Roberts-Antieau - A documentary about the life and work of Roberts-Antieau.^[2][3]

• Sew Far: The Fantastic, Incredible and Amazing Life and Work of Chris Roberts-Antieau^[4][5]