True False

Basic Information

Artist(s):
Leslie Roberts
Title:
True False
Medium:
Surface Size:
16 x 12 in.
Date Created:
2019
Inventory #:
Roberts-2019-01

Description

title, date, size, medium, and artist’s notes written on the back of the panel

 

handwritten text list of oppositions:

True/false, anxious/serene, bizarre/ordinary, positive/uncertain, digital/analog,

uptown/downtown, compliant/resistant, rough/gentle, systematic/arbitrary, orderly/disheveled,

heavy/light, friend/foe, binary/non-binary . . .

 

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Sapphire

Created in 2021 by Leslie Roberts

transcription provided by the artist: “melancholy, oceanic, democratic, sapphire, cyan, sky, azure, heartbroken, turquoise, cobalt, indigo, lapis lazuli, gentian, bluebell, cornflower, delphinium, erotic, blue zircon, navy, hydrangea, robin’s egg, airy, crepuscular, aquamarine, sorrowful, royal, low-spirited, twilight, midnight, watery, galactic, deep space, wistful, larkspur, downcast, gloomy, somber, periwinkle, moody, lachrymose, denim, Mediterranean, Caribbean, Antarctic, Adriatic, downcast, […]


NB

Created in 2020 by Leslie Roberts

transcription provided by the artist: “NB NY AG CV FX HD DM US AD BF JK TY MG WC UG UV PE PT WH RV CG ET DC TA HR SW NW PC CU NJ OG DT Leslie Roberts, 2020 (common 2-letter acronyms and initialisms)”


Instructions (Open, Close, Peel, Use)

Created in 2014 by Leslie Roberts

transcription provided by the artist: “open close peel back for drug facts use four or five fingers to pinch the home screen no littering smoking spitting radio playing if you have trouble reading this email please click here take two tablets by mouth three times a day maximum of six tablets a day tackle your […]


After the Killing Frost

Created in 2025 by Leslie Roberts

transcription provided by the artist: “after the killing frost reverting to the original dull purple invaluable condensed encyclopedia this is a mistake fill the excavation three quarters full continue cutting of fall withered flowers the latest cultural ideas it is a rare privilege to select the preferred colors stake the late bloomers remove and burn […]