Aubrey ROemer

Premiere DateOct 15, 2019
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Categories Art Culture Talk Weekly Talk
00:00 Introduction
00:39 Aubrey Roemer
2:02 American Darkness Birth of Violence
06:46 PhD in Anthropology
16:21 Art of the Past vs Art of the Present
23:30 Current Art Work
33:49 Cornelius Will Johnson
38:27 Outro
38:48 Finish

Aubrey Roemer was born in Rochester, NY. She received her BFA from Pratt Institute; interning with NYC artists and galleries, and working as Americorps Scholar. She was a journalist for Art Observed, specializing in covering the NYC auction season. Post collegiately, she held residencies in the USA, Europe, and Asia: at Vermont Studio Center, in England at 42 Acres, and at Kio­-a-­Thau Sugar Refinery Artist Village in Taiwan. In 2016, she participated in NYU Tisch’s The Season Comedia Del’Arte in Florence, Italy, as an Assistant Art Collaborator.

Roemer received grants from Do Your Part & Paddlers For Humanity in 2016, World Connect in 2015, and ARTwerk in 2014. She has internationally exhibited and garnered press for her work. In 2015, she spoke at the Parrish Art Museum’s Pecha Kucha night about her portrait projects. She is represented by artist group Artshape Mammoth.

She has previously executed projects in Nicaragua, Indonesia, and Greece.

All images courtesy of the artist

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