Stephen Friedman Gallery – Deborah Roberts: I want to talk about you

9 June – 23 July, 2022

PV: Wednesday 8 June: 6-8PM

The show features new paintings dominated by black backgrounds and some of the largest works the artist has ever made. Simultaneously powerful and vulnerable, heroic and insecure, Roberts’ subjects reveal how systemic racism, gender politics and western beauty standards shape the way Black children grow up. Amongst the references that inform the series are prominent incidents of racism in the UK, including the recent case of Child Q.