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Allison Roberts
At its basic level, Allison Sloan Roberts’s work explores genocide in American History and how events have been repressed and distorted in the collective cultural memory.
By combining images that are well known, but whose meaning has seemingly been lost, with her own images of current society, the work serves as an examination of the ambiguous role of the American “hero”--represented by Paul Tibbets moments before taking off to bomb Hiroshima; by B-17 bombers used in the fire bombing of Dresden; and by the character of Ethan (played by John Wayne) searching to find and kill his own niece. More importantly, the work can be viewed as representing the ambiguous nature of American history and the collective failure to learn from it.
Born and raised in New York, Roberts graduated from Kenyon College with Honors in American Studies in 2006.
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