Artist: Asia Roberge
Exhibition: lifting the viel
Media: Oil on wood panel and canvas, mixed media on vellum and paper, pencil on paper, cotton rope, yarn, and stick
Gallery: CSULB School of Art, Max L Gatov Gallery East
Website: n/a
Instagram: @asiarow
Asia Roberge is a CSULB senior studying in the College of the Arts. The program she is in is drawing and painting. She likes doing art that empowers women. Her plans after CSULB are to move to the bay area and build her work. She has thought about getting her masters a few years after graduation.
She has nine pieces of work. They are called: Looking down, caretaker, diva, after supper, green eyes, outgrowth, calendar girls, after supper, morning reflection and the sacrifice. Most of her paintings feature a women. She has oil on wood panel and canvas, mixed media on vellum and paper, pencil on paper, and a sculpture: cotton rope, yarn, and stick.
Her work is about women. She has painted women’s bodies for three years. She advocates for breastfeeding, women’s health and sexuality. She said that she uses red because it is about sexuality, visceral and carnal.
These pieces make me feel empowered as a woman. It is nice to see women portrayed in their own comfortable skin. The calendar girls piece is the one that closely represents how sexualized women are but the rest display a more natural self. My favorite is Diva because I like the texture, mixed media on paper.
linda 