Celeste Roberge was born in Maine and received her art education at the Maine College of Art, the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, and the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. She lives in Gainesville, Florida where she is a Full Professor of Sculpture at the School of Art and Art History, University of Florida. She maintains a summer studio in South Portland, Maine. Her sculptures are included in the collections of the Nevada Museum of Art, Portland Museum of Art, Farnsworth Art Museum, Harn Museum of Art, Jackson Laboratories, Bar Harbor, Maine, Runnymede Sculpture Farm, Woodside, California, Emory University in Atlanta, and in private collections in Maine, Boston, New York, Miami, and Santa Barbara. The three collages Celeste will show in Piles are part of her Stacks Drawings series, and reference both human memory, which is cumulative but fallible in nature, and the accumulative, fossilizing forces of nature itself. These drawings also read as funerary monuments– bodies and the articles they have used buried within layers of memory and physical detritus. For more information please visit her website at http://celesteroberge.com.
Sleep (After Courbet), 1999
Egyptian Stack, 2003
Mme. Recamier, 1999
