A Series of Discoveries exhibits a collection of early works from the artist’s 20-year art career. Roebuck’s abstract and formally composed paintings are vehicles that express color, shape, and texture as well as intuitive and playful exploration. Her work is informed by her innate artistic sensibilities and her years spent as a modern dancer and a psychiatrist.  

Roebuck developed a sense of space and movement when training as a dancer. Physically, her paintings reflect a certain awareness of balance, expression, and motion that is intimately tied to this history. She continues to negotiate her body in relation to space, as she applies swaths of paint to her canvas. Movement is crucial to Roebuck’s process as she shifts canvases around the studio – rotating them or changing their height to gain a better perspective on what next gesture the painting needs.

The works continue to evolve as the artist slowly builds layers and coherence. Some pieces are developed over years as she adds and removes marks, gestures, and color. She employs the patience and curiosity developed as a clinician with an ability to listen to what her body, her mind, and her environment are saying. Roebuck holds a close and dynamic relationship with her work.   

The result is a body of richly formed paintings that celebrate the accumulations of their previous states of being – just as the artist has done. Her paintings reflect the complexity and depth of a life lived in curiosity and the pursuit of understanding.