Someone to Watch Over You by Roberta Fineberg, Photo Diptych
Someone to Watch Over You by Roberta Fineberg, Photo Diptych
Someone to Watch Over You by Roberta Fineberg, Photo Diptych
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Someone to Watch Over You by Roberta Fineberg, Photo Diptych

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Someone to Watch Over You, 2022 by Roberta Fineberg is a photo diptych composed of two photographs stitched together on the theme of mystery and story telling: a cloud promises a butterfly a long sweet life.  

Two archival pigment prints on baryta paper are sewn together with white thread for the 11” x 15 3/4” diptych. 

Titled, dated, and signed on verso by the artist. Edition of 1. Framed.

Provenance: RF Archive

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Artist's Bio:

As a visual artist drawn to experimentation, Roberta Fineberg (RF) invites serendipity in her practice and explores diverse mediums and subjects, which include the ephemeral (butterfly series), stolen moments (documentary work), play, timelessness, the enduring, and significance of matter.

Selected exhibitions: Double Helix (40” x 60”) was included at Sotheby’s New York (2022) auction Contemporary Discoveries preview show; Time Gallery, New York - aka Sojourner (2022) - duo exhibition; Phyllis Harriman Gallery (2022, 2020) - Art Student League group shows; CADAF online art fair (2020); Gallery122 (2018) New York pop-up group show; Curate NY (2013) online group show; Paris Photo (2010), Photos, Femmes, Feminisme group show.

RF’s art and photography is in private and public collections, with a series of portraits of women writers at the Bibliothèque Nationale and Bibliothèque Marguerite Durand in Paris, France.

Award-winning projects include You Will Never Beat New York (2020) an experimental video shot on a smartphone that she made during the pandemic as a love letter to New York City. The work received 14 laurels from independent film festivals worldwide (2020-2021). Print’s Regional Design Annual New York 2003 awarded her cover photography for the book jacket  If Wishes Were Horses (Merry Whiteford).

In 1997 Macmillan published City Riders: A Story of Riding and Friendship Roberta Fineberg’s first book with black-and-white photographs and text about three teenage girls in the 1990s who rode horses at the now defunct Claremont Riding Academy and oldest stable in New York City.

RF lives in New York City.

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