Art & Practice

The curious title of Deborah Roberts’ exhibition at Art + Practice, I’m, implies a sense of becoming, a budding identity still in formation. Roberts takes Black children as her subject, rendering their faces by sourcing images of children, cutting them up, and then reassembling them to create fractured hybrid faces that hone in on the multiplicity of the individual. Roberts also mixes in photographs of adults and historical figures as well as well known Black actors and politicians (Obama’s hand…