Tegan Brozyna Roberts, Vestige October 2 - October 23, 2022
Tegan Brozyna Roberts
Vestige
October 2 - 23, 2022
www.teganmbrozyna.com
Instagram: |@tmbrozynar
Vestige is a series of paper collages that focus on my great-grandmother’s life during the Great Influenza of 1918, and our shared experience of raising small children during a pandemic. My great grandmother, Emily Bulow, was an immigrant seamstress who repurposed clothing remnants into toys and decorations. I was inspired by how the fabric fragments of her work reflected their origins, even as they were dissected and reassembled into something new. This idea that materials retain memory was pivotal to the work included in Vestige. I painted over my young daughter’s drawings made during the 2020 COVID shutdown. I then pulled shapes from the contours of her drawings and from patterned fabrics in my great-grandmother’s work to create my dimensional collages. This process enabled me to add my voice to Emily’s artistic lineage and to reflect on how we sustain ourselves during times of adversity.
-Tegan Brozyna Roberts (b. 1984) is a mixed media artist living and working in the Gowanus neighborhood of Brooklyn, NY. She received an MFA from Brooklyn College, where she was a Graduate Teaching Fellow as well as a recipient of the Dean’s Award in Art. Brozyna Roberts has exhibited nationally and internationally, including group shows at Heather Gaudio Fine Art (Greenwich, CT); Textile Arts Center (Brooklyn, NY); The Invisible Dog Center (Brooklyn, NY); Ground Floor Gallery (Brooklyn, NY); and Icelandic Textile Center (Blönduós, Iceland). Solo exhibitions include those at Established Gallery (Brooklyn, NY); Material Exhibitions (Chicago, IL); and the Philadelphia International Airport (Philadelphia, PA). Art fairs include Art on Paper New York, Art Miami, Seattle Art Fair and the Affordable Art Fair. In 2019, Brozyna Roberts participated in Meta Open Arts (formerly Facebook AIR), which culminated in a permanent installation at Facebook’s New York office. Her work has been featured in publications including CREATE! Magazine, New Visionary Magazine, I Like Your Work, Two Coats of Paint and Hyperallergic.