Watch Gordon talk about one of her pieces from the collection “Milked” here!

Preparing for her upcoming exhibition, Amber Robles-Gordon is a great example of staying true to your heart.

Robles-Gordon is a mixed media artists who enjoys creating collages from everyday items and turn them into something “pretty.” These items could include anything from foam hair rollers to buttons to entire Barbie dolls! Just give her glue and a canvas and watch these items transform. This current graduate student studying Business Administration in order to manager her own work, fell in love with art back in elementary school, but realized it is her passion in high school. Influenced by the work of artists like Elma Thomas, Romare Bearden, and Diego Rivera, Robles-Gordon graduated from Howard University with a degree in Fine Arts. She told me, “I will never stop creating. It is my calling.” When she’s not hands-on in a project, she works as a Yoga instructor, is a wonderful mother to her 12 year old son, and serves as President of the supportive organization, Black Artists of DC.

With an ethnic background from the island of Puerto Rico to the cool waters of St. Thomas, color is a major staple in Robles-Gordon’s work. The overall theme of her work is feminism and what that means to her. She strives to explore the role of women and express the many nuances the gender presents. In her latest collection entitled, “Milked” Robles-Gordon has taken trinkets and other memorabilia women tend to hold on to and ask the question, “Why? Why do we continue to subscribe to the idea that we must hold on to these things? Why are we the gathers of this information?” This inquiry will be on display, along-side the work of Jamea Richmond-Edwards in their exhibit “Pretty Things, Little Treasures, and Hidden Meanings” starting Friday, September 3 through Friday September 17 in The Gallery at AYN Studio located at 923 F. St. NW in Washington, DC.□

Be sure to check out her show this Fall, and for more information on this artist, click her name above to be redirected to her portfolio website.

Good Luck Amber Robles-Gordon!

Peace, Love, Create.
~BobbyPen