Philece Roberts
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Philece Roberts is a Bahamian artist whose work investigates memory, identity, and emotional duality through portraiture and abstraction. Centering the narratives of Black women, she renders the face as vessel and archive where identity, environment, and memory converge.
Working with graphite, paint, and organic materials such as tea stains, Roberts layers realism with nature and line as structural parallels to psychological states. Her mark-making traces shifts in presence and absence, exploring how identity is preserved and lost across personal, cultural, and ecological memory.
Roberts holds a BFA in Graphic Design from the Art Institute of Atlanta. She has illustrated three books and completed commissions for the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute, Strathmore Artist Papers, and Essence Magazine. Her work has been exhibited locally and internationally and is held in public and private collections. She lives and works in Nassau, The Bahamas.