Solange Roberdeau (b. 1982, Albion, CA) is an artist and educator who lives and works in Northern California on the edge of the Pacific Ocean.
Artist Statement
My hope is for the work I am making to communicate a sense of perceptual movement and that within this movement, there is the invitation to ask questions more than a statement that quiets them – an experience that is more atmospheric than specifically defined. I look for this in nuanced material tensions and by pairing ordered forms with organic mark-making. Formal elements oftentimes reference and are created by the environments where I am working, and imagery emerges in a generative and reciprocal way, one element informing the next. In many cultural mythologies, the concept of a “creation space” is expressed as an ambiguous event out of which perception expands, and cultures are born, the outcome often unpredictable yet inherently full of hope. As an artist and educator, I feel deeply the importance of pointing to that space—which is at once ordered and chaotic, controlled and serendipitous—as a positive place of creative potential and possibility.
Artworks
Morning Sea Rock Illuminated
$400
Yuba River Song
$400
Sheltering Fog And Long Winter Skies
$400
Artist Bio
Solange Roberdeau (b. 1982, Albion, CA) is an artist and educator who lives and works in Northern California on the edge of the Pacific Ocean. She completed her BFA in Printmaking at the Rhode Island School of Design (2005) and earned an MFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD (2012), where she also taught as an adjunct faculty member (2019-22). She is a current adjunct faculty member at Mendocino College, Ukiah/Fort Bragg, CA (2023-24).
Roberdeau is the recipient of the 2023 ACMC & Mendocino County Board of Supervisors Artist Champion Award and has received Artist in Residence fellowships from the Helene Wurlitzer Foundation, Taos, NM; the Josef and Anni Albers Foundation, Bethany, CT; and Can Serrat, El Bruc, Spain.
She has exhibited both nationally and internationally at venues including the Harwood Museum of Art, Taos, NM; Flux Factory, Long Island City, NY; International Print Center, New York, NY; Gross McLeaf Gallery, Philadelphia, PA; Blunk Space, Point Reyes Station, CA; Minnesota Street Project, San Francisco, CA; Municipal Bonds, San Francisco, CA; Abbaye de La Couronne, la Couronne, France; and Arcade Gallery, Cairo, Egypt.
Roberdeau is represented by Municipal Bonds, San Francisco, CA.
More information about Solange can be found on her website: www.solange-roberdeau.com
About Print Suite
It was such a pleasure to work with the team at Moonlight Press to produce this suite of prints. Suminagashi (Japanese water marbling) is a technique I have used often in my drawings, and I think we were all excited for the challenge of translating this very delicate and ephemeral technique into etching. I thought about the visual elements of these prints prior to beginning the project, but the final images truly developed out of the experience of working with the printers over a series of long days – seeing what emerged visually through the process and responding to that. I fell in love with the colors of the Asian papers available in the studio, and so upon the guidance of the printers, chine collé was used to create key formal elements in all 3 images. I have a background in printmaking, but this was my first experience collaborating with a shop to produce original imagery. I am thrilled with the result.