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Roberta Allen is a conceptual artist and fiction writer. Her interest in language is the bridge that connects these separate pursuits. As a conceptual artist who combines images and text, she explores how language changes or informs our perception of images. Her works included drawings, artist books, photo/text works, installations, digital prints, and sculpture. Her works in the early 1970s were inspired by Kierkegaard’s belief that our deepest experiences occur in the form of contradictions and wherever there is contradiction humor is present. Through the 1970s, she exhibited alongside Sol LeWitt, Robert Ryman and Carl Andre, among others, at John Weber Gallery in New York. In her writing, which includes, among other books, three micro and short story collections, a novel, a novella and a travel memoir, Allen questions the way we perceive the world and the self. Truths are relative and may change in a flash. The way our minds work and specifically the act of relating is her main subject. She presents disturbing views of the human scene which are often relieved by humor.

Roberta Allen
Born1945
New York, NY
Occupation
  • Conceptual artist
  • Fiction writer
NationalityUnited States
Period1960s–present
Website
www.robertaallen.com

Early life


Roberta Allen is a New York-based artist who was born and raised in New York, NY. At the age of twenty, she traveled alone to Europe and lived briefly in Athens, Amsterdam and Berlin, later in Mexico. Over the years, she traveled, often alone, to the Peruvian Amazon, Indonesia, Turkey, Egypt, Mali and countries in Central America. Her travels inspired many of her stories.


Art career


Allen began as a painter living in Amsterdam where she had her first one-person gallery exhibition in 1967. After several one-person shows in New York, she joined John Weber Gallery in 1973 and had one-person exhibitions there in 1974, 1975, 1977, and 1979.[1] During this time, she also had one-person gallery exhibitions in Milan, Dusseldorf, Brussels, Munich and Rome. She had one-person museum exhibitions at MoMA P.S. 1, L.I.C., NY, 1977, 80; the Kunstforum, Städtische Galerie in Lenbachhaus, Munich, 1981,[2] and The Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts, Perth, Western Australia, 1989. Her conceptual works, which combine image and text, include drawings, collages, artist books,[3] photo/text series, and installations. She has been in over one hundred group exhibitions worldwide. After 1981, while continuing to make conceptual art and exhibiting intermittently, she preferred to stay outside the art world. In 2014, the Athenaeum Music & Arts Library in La Jolla, CA began a catalogue raisonne of her multiple edition 1970s artist books and a one-person exhibition of her 1970s art took place at Minus Space[4] in Dumbo, Brooklyn. A one-person show of recent conceptual drawings and one-of-a-kind artist books took place at the Athenaeum in 2016. A one person exhibition, "Some Facts About Fear" took place in 2017 in Minus Space in Brooklyn. 

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Writing career


Allen began writing fiction in 1979 while making conceptual art. Her first stories were published in 1980 by Sun & Moon Press[6] in the anthology Contemporary American Fiction (along with John Ashbery and Walter Abish, among others). Her first story collection was The Traveling Woman, (Vehicle Editions).[7] Her other books are The Daughter, (Autonomedia),[8] Certain People, (Coffee House Press);[9] Amazon Dream (City Lights)[10] Fast Fiction, (Story Press),[11] The Playful Way to Serious Writing,[12] The Playful Way to Knowing Yourself,[13] (both Houghton Mifflin) and The Dreaming Girl (Painted Leaf, new edition Ellipsis Press).[14] Her latest story collection is The Princess of Herself, published by Pelekinesis Press in 2017 . Her short shorts and short stories have appeared in over 300 literary magazines, including Conjunctions, Guernica, Bomb, The Brooklyn Rail, Open City, The Collagist, Gargoyle and in many anthologies, including Micro Fiction, published by W.W. Norton in 2017. She received the 2015 Honorable Mention for The Gertrude Stein Award for Fiction. She has been a Tennessee Williams Fellow in Fiction at the University of the South and a Yaddo Fellow.


Selected one person exhibitions



Grants and fellowships



Multiple edition artist books



Selected bibliography



Selected public collections



Teaching (writing)


Teaching positions include: The Writing Program, New School University from 1992 – 2010, Columbia University's School of the Arts, University of the South, Sewanee, TN, Parsons School of Design, NY, Summer Writers' Conference, Hofstra University, International Women's Writing Guild Conference, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY. Allen's private writing workshops began in 1991 and continue to the present.


References


  1. Jules Heller, Nancy G. Heller (eds), "Roberta Allen", North American Women Artists of the Twentieth Century: A Biographical Dictionary (Garland Publishing, Incorporated, 1997)
  2. , a Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus München
  3. , Parasol Press Ltd. 1977
  4. Minus Space
  5. John Seed (November 11, 2016). "Clusters of Loose Geometries in Conceptual "Thought Drawings"". hyperallergic.
  6. Sun & Moon Press Archive [pdf.oac.cdlib.org/pdf/ucsd/spcoll/mss0224.pdf], Folder 14 Allen, Roberta Box 2
  7. Traveling Women (Vehicle Editions; First edition, March 1986)
  8. The Daughter (Autonomedia, 6/1/1992)
  9. Certain People (Coffee House Press, February 1997)
  10. Amazon Dream City Lights Publishers (October 1992)
  11. Fast Fiction: Creating Fiction in Five Minutes Story Pr; 1st edition (June 1997)
  12. The Playful Way to Serious Writing Mariner Books; 1 edition (September 9, 2002)
  13. The Playful Way to Knowing Yourself: A Creative Workbook to Inspire Self-Discovery Mariner Books (April 29, 2003)
  14. The Dreaming Girl Ellipsis Press, 2011


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