Brown Foundation Gallery
August 27 - November 13, 2022
ArtWalk Reception
Saturday, August 27, 2022
6 – 9 PM
Artist talk at 6:30 PM
This exhibition is supported in part by a grant from Texas Commission on the Arts.
Jamie Robertson
A Hundred More
Jamie Robertson’s exhibition, A Hundred More, is a meditation on the concept and reality of the Black Landscape in the rural South. Robertson describes the landscape as witness to the fullness of Black life; the emergence of new generations and the retiring of older generations into the soil to become one with the landscape. The ancestors, now a spectral presence on the Homeground, witness the simultaneous growth and decay of their bloodlines. The Black landscape will survive us all and with that in mind, Robertson pauses to acknowledge what came before, what is now, and to dream of what is to come. For over one hundred years, Robertson’s family has called the small unincorporated communities in Leon County, TX, Home. Through the use of archival documents, photography, sculpture, and video, she asks, “What will become of us in a hundred more years?”
Jamie Robertson is a visual artist and educator from Houston, Texas. She earned a BA in Art and MFA in Studio Art from the University of Houston. She also holds an MS in Art Therapy from Florida State University. She is a former recipient of the American Art Therapy Association's Pearlie Roberson Award and Red Bull Arts Microgrant. Robertson is also one half of the podcast, Where I See Me, which examines the presence of Black and Brown people in comics and media.
Her creative practice is rooted in the recollection of the personal and collective histories of the African Diaspora through lens-based media; with a focus on the Gulf South. Her work was featured in FORECAST 2021: SF Camerawork’s Annual Survey Exhibition, Flatland Film Festival, Art League Houston, Florida A & M University Foster-Tanner Fine Arts Gallery, 516 Arts, and internationally at Contemporary Calgary in Exposure Photography Festival in Canada. Her photobook Charting the Afriscape of Leon County, TX was published in December 2020 with Fifth Wheel Press. She currently works as a Lecturer at Sam Houston State University.
