Maybe, decades later, you cut one of her op-ed illustrations from the newspaper - “ You Want It You Buy It You Forget It” - which spoke to your dawning suspicion that you had become just another cog in the capitalist machine. Originally a signifier of cool, its message reverberated for years. “ You are not yourself,” it read, accompanying an image of a woman’s fragmented reflection, the mirror shattered by a bullet or fist. Maybe it was a postcard from a museum gift shop in your dorm room in the late 1980s, pinned to the wall above your stack of cassettes. PERHAPS WE’VE ALL had it, the Barbara Kruger moment. In an interview, Roberts said that in Kruger’s art, “There’s no room to not understand what she’s talking about.” © Deborah Roberts, courtesy of the artist and Stephen Friedman Gallery, London ![]() They also both attended Syracuse University, at different times. ![]() Both artists use found imagery in their work - though Roberts generally does not combine her images with text, as she does here in tribute to Kruger’s style. “A Consequence of History,” a 2020 collage-and-text work by Deborah Roberts made exclusively for T and inspired by the art of Barbara Kruger.
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