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Featured Artist: Chris Roberts Antieu

Chris Antieu works in "fabric pictures", or textile appliquè, which she creates by cutting fabric shapes and sewing them to a fabric background. The swatches of material she buys at fabric stores, thrift shops, and old fashioned five-and-dimes are her palette. The sewing machine is her drawing tool - She uses it to scribble color with tiny stiches. Many of her pieces are finished with hand-stiched embroidery techniques. All of her pieces are presented under glass, in hand-painted frames, which are individually created for each piece.

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Chris Roberts Antieu

EDUCATION

Self-taught

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

1988-present. American Craft Enterprises. Baltimore, MD.
1988-present. Ann Arbor Street Art Fair. Ann Arbor, MI.
1988-90, 1992-94, 1998. Washington Craft Show. Smithsonian Institute, Washington DC.
1988-90, 1991-92, 1996, 1998. Philadelphia Craft Show. Philadelphia Museum of Art,Philadelphia,PA
1989-present. American Craft Exposition. Northwestern University, Evanston, IL.
1990-97. New Art Forms. Navy Pier, Chicago, IL.
1996 North Shore Folk Art Show. Evanston, IL.
1998-present. American Craft Enterprises. Atlanta, GA.
1998-present. Crafts at the Castle. Boston, MA.
1998-present. St. Louis Art Fair. St. Louis, MO.
1998 Sculptural Objects and Functional Art. Navy Pier, Chicago, IL.
2000 Artists As Angels Holiday Benefit Auction. Sponsored by E-bay and Mary Engelbreit.
2005-2008 Race, Class, and Gender and All Faiths Beautiful American Visionary Art Museum. Baltimore, MD

SELECTED SHOWS

1990 “Chris Roberts-Antieau” Views Gallery, Manayunk, PA. Solo show.
1991 “New Work” Bennett Gallery, Knoxville, TN. Solo show.
1991 “New Work” Mark Milliken Gallery, New York, NY. Two-person show with Graceann Warn.
1994 “New Work” Running Ridge Gallery, Santa Fe, NM. Two-person show with Richard Silver.
1995 “Group Craft Exhibition” Bennett Galleries, Knoxville, TN.
1995 “New Work” Mark Milliken Gallery, New York, NY. Two-person show with Graceann Warn.
1998 “The Hurlbutt Bestiary” Friends of the Greenwich Library, Greenwich, CT.
1999 “Chris Roberts-Antieau” Two Chicks, New Orleans, LA. Solo show.
2000 “Invitational Exhibition” Washington Street Gallery, A Ann Arbor, MI.
2000 “Chris Roberts-Antieau” Show of Hands, Denver, CO. Two-person show with Meg Little.
2001 “Chris Roberts-Antieau” Show of Hands, Denver, CO. Two-person show with Meg Little.
2003 “Chris Roberts-Antieau” Show of Hands, Denver, CO. One-person show.
2003 “Chris Roberts-Antieau” Modern Primitive Gallery, Atlanta, GA. With quilters of Gee’s Bend.

SELECTED GALLERIES

Mark Milliken Gallery New York, NY
Twist Portland, OR
Show of Hands Denver, CO
Modern Primitive Gallery Atlanta, GA
Philadelphia Museum of Art Philadelphia, PA
Indianapolis Museum of Art Indianapolis, IL
Kohler Arts Center Sheboygan, WI
Zona New York, NY; Aspen, CO; Tokyo, Japan
Bennett Galleries Knoxville, TN
Adam Whitney Gallery Omaha, NE
The Phillips Collection Washington, DC
Two Fishes Ketchum, ID
Abacus Portland, ME
Left Bank Gallery Wellfleet, MA
The Spectrum Nantucket, MA; Brewster, MA; Newport, RI
Cross Harris New York, NY
Good Goods Saugatuck, MI
Greenleaf Gallery Bannockburn, IL
Judith McGrann and Friends Minneapolis, MN
Running Ridge Gallery Santa Fe, NM

COLLECTIONS

Julius Erving Lyle Lovett Oprah Winfrey Senator Sam Nunn Ed McCaffrey House of Representatives, Annex Building. Washington, DC.

GRANTS

1989 Art Park, Artist-in-Residence Lewiston, NY

AFFILIATIONS

1990 Board of Directors, Ann Arbor Street Art Fair. Ann Arbor, MI.
1991-1993 Zozobra Gallery, founder & owner. Chelsea, MI.
1992 Selection Committee, American Craft Enterprises. Baltimore, MD; Atlanta, GA; St. Paul, MN.
1999 Jury, Ann Arbor Street Art Fair. Ann Arbor, MI.
1999 Selection Committee, American Craft Enterprises. Baltimore, MD.

PUBLICATIONS

Home Magazine
American Craft Magazine
Fiber Art Magazine
Southwest Art Magazine
Detroit Monthly Magazine
New Detroit Magazine
Ann Arbor News
Ann Arbor Observer
Home Companion Magazine
Home Ideas Magazine
Fabric. Mary Engelbreit. Andrews McMeel Publishing, Kansas City, 2001.
Sew Far – A TwentyYear Retrospective Book of Chris Roberts-Antieau, CRA Publishing, 2007

SELECTED HONORS

1992 Ann Arbor Street Art Fair: Best in Fiber.
1994 Ann Arbor Blues and Jazz Festival Poster
1994 Ann Arbor Street Art Fair Juror’s Award: Best in Drawing
1995 Ann Arbor Street Art Fair: Best in Fiber.
1998 St. Louis Art Fair: First Place, Fiber.
1998 Ann Arbor Street Art Fair Poster
2001 St. Louis Art Fair: First Place, Fiber.
2003 Ann Arbor Street Art Fair Poster
2003 St. Louis Art Fair: First Place, Fiber.

You can see more of Chris's work by visiting her website at www.chrisroberts-antieu.com