![]() This year, her work was the subject of a two-venue solo show in Los Angeles at Art + Practice and the California African American Museum, and is to be explored in a two-person show, alongside Benny Andrews, at the McNay Art Museum in San Antonio. Her art has been exhibited widely, with it being included in major group shows like the widely acclaimed 2021 exhibition “The Dirty South: Contemporary Art, Material Culture, and the Sonic Impulse” at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts in Richmond and 2017’s “Fictions” at the Studio Museum in Harlem. To those photographic elements, Roberts will often add in textiles and fabrics as well as painting certain sections of the canvas by hand. Roberts’s art has become well-known over the past several years for its use of collaged images, in which eyes, noses, and other body parts from found images are arranged into scenes that show Black children, often against a stark white background. Roberts’ galleries, Stephen Friedman Gallery in London and Vielmetter in Los Angeles, did not respond to ARTnews’s request for comment.Ī side-by-side comparison of works by Lynthia Edwards, left, and Deborah Roberts, right, that was included as an exhibit in Roberts’s complaint filed in August 2022. “There’s been a consistent and despicable effort on Roberts’s part to prevent Lynthia from becoming successful in this space, and it’s interfered with Edwards’s relationships with other galleries and collectors,” he said. Nikas said that he plans to file a separate lawsuit on behalf of his clients against Roberts and her galleries “to hold them accountable for what they’ve done,” regarding “false statements” made about Edwards and her work. He added, “That is an abuse of the litigation process. It is a successful artist trying to cram down an up-and-coming artist whom she perceives as a threat to her marketplace.” The essence of the case is that Roberts is complaining that Edwards is working in the same artistic tradition. “Roberts has not accused her of copying any of her specific works. “ has created all of the artwork that’s at issue in this case based on her own original aesthetic decisions,” Nikas told ARTnews Thursday. Nikas, Edwards’ attorney, described the case as an attempt to prevent “Lynthia Edwards from thriving in the same artistic space and same artistic tradition as Roberts.” This is now a matter for the US judicial system to determine.” Clarida, said, “Deborah Roberts is undertaking a legal case regarding copyright infringement and related claims against Lynthia Edwards, Richard Beavers and Richard Beavers Gallery. In a statement, Roberts’ attorney, Robert W. In addition to seeking injunctive relief and damages in excess of $1 million, Roberts is also seeking that all works by Edwards (referred to in the suit at the “Infringing Collages”) be impounded and subsequently destroyed by the courts. Luke Nikas, the attorney for the defendants, filed a letter with Judge LaShann DeArcy Hall on September 22, notifying the court of its intention to file a motion to dismiss the suit, which Nikas described as “suffer from numerous legal deficiencies” in the letter. Roberts filed the complaint in August in United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York, based on where Richard Beavers Gallery does business. 'Real Housewives of Beverly Hills' Star and Her Ex-Husband Will Give Up Art in Court-Ordered Auction ![]() ![]() Bribery Suit Against Marlborough Gallery, Curator, and Artist's Family Dismissed in Paris Court
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