PROJECT DEVELOPMENT
Reclamando mi tiempo, reclamando lo mío (Reclaiming my time, reclaiming what is mine)
Amber Robles-Gordon
Reclamando mi tiempo, reclamando lo mío is a multidisciplinary project exploring Amber Robles-Gordon's maternal Puerto Rican heritage. Through the exploration of the Puerto Rican traditional dance, bomba, Robles-Gordon will make connections between place and heritage. Amber Robles-Gordon's work focuses on personal hybridism: gender, ethnicity, cultural, and social experiences that make her a dynamic individual. As a multimedia visual artist based in Washington, DC, Amber utilizes non-traditional materials to develop her assemblages. Creating large sculptures, installations, and public artwork, she emphasizes the essentialness of spirituality and temporality within life.
During her project development, Amber Robles-Gordon will study bomba, a dance rooted in Puerto Rican ancestral history and culture, with an instructor. By taking a deep dive into this richly intercultural practice, Amber will explore essential questions about her diverse cultural heritage and the history of Puerto Rico. This project development is focused on the process, not the product, creating strong bonds between the context in which Amber develops her artistic practice and the physical elements of her work.
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Amber Robles-Gordon - Past Work
Amber Robles-Gordon
Amber Robles-Gordon is an Afro-Latina interdisciplinary visual artist based in Washington, DC. Her creations are visual representations of her hybridism: a fusion of her gender, ethnicity, cultural, and social experiences. Amber is a San Juan-born American artist known for recontextualizing non-traditional materials, her assemblages, large sculptures, installations, and public artwork, emphasize the essentialness of spirituality and temporality within life.
Driven by the need to construct her own distinctive path, innovate, and challenge social norms, her artwork is unconventional and non-formulaic. The underpinnings of her creations are imbued to reveal racial injustice and the paradoxes within the imbalance of masculine and feminine energies within our society.
Amber is an advocate with over fifteen years of experience exhibiting her work, as an art educator, and coordinating exhibitions. Amber has exhibited internationally, has been reviewed, and nd been commissioned by many prestigious museums, art media, and arts organizations in the United States. Among this extensive list includes the Smithsonian, Hyperallergic, and the Tafeta Gallery in London. Her full CV is available on her website.
