Rbt. Sps.

Apple Express, 2005 & 2012, VHS to digital video

Apple Express is a documentary of a virtually parentless lower income household in rural Tennessee in 2005. Further reading

Paducah Son, 2015, Hi8 and VHS to digital video. Editor: Michael Carter, Music: Jeremiah M. Carter

Paducah Son is a short documentary about Gladman Humbles, who was the first Black firefighter in Paducah, Kentucky in the early 1960s.

Contact

Rbt. Sps.
208 West 29th Street, Room 504
New York, New York, USA, 10001
rbtsps@gmail.com
Instagram: @rbtsps

Selected Education and Honors

- Bestowed a Kentucky Colonel
- Foundation for Contemporary Arts emergency grantee
- BFA, Studio Art, Emphasis in Printmaking, Murray State University
- Kentucky Governor’s School for the Arts Participant

Selected Exhibitions, Engagements, etc.

2024
Apple Express: A Film by Rbt. Sps., Subsequence, Tbilisi, Georgia

Send Me Nudes!, NAD Gallery, Brooklyn, New York, USA

City. Like, grain, you grew from the Deep Sea, 6BC Botanical Garden, New York, New York, USA

32BJ Art Show: Embracing Planet Earth, The High Line, New York, New York, USA

2023
16th Annual 32BJ Art Show, New York, New York, USA

Middle of Knowhere Film Festival, Fayetteville Arkansas, USA

2022
Film screening: Confederitis, Cinema House, Tbilisi, Georgia

2021
Zootonic Hex, Field Projects, New York, New York, USA

2020
Experimental film workshop instructor/volunteer, Colegio Universitario San Gerónimo, Havana, Cuba (canceled due to Covid-19)

2019
Lecturer, Spalding University Film Festival, Louisville, Kentucky, USA

Extended Family, Darby Forever Gallery, Louisville, Kentucky, USA

Film screening: Confederitis, Circe Platform, Tbilisi, Georgia

2018
Confederitis: A film by Rbt. Sps. and Jillian McManemin, world premiere, The Slipper Room, New York, New York, USA

Confederitis: A film by Rbt. Sps. and Jillian McManemin, Official selection, Istanbul International Experimental Film Festival

2017
Semionauts: three exercises in collaborative essay filmmaking, King’s Leap, Brooklyn, New York, USA

2015
DEEP PLAY FUN HOUSE: An Immersive Exhibition of 18 Video Works, Seed Space, Nashville, Tennessee, USA

2013
Apple Express: A Film by Rbt. Sps., Interstate Projects, Brooklyn, New York, USA

Jillian McManemin and Rbt. Sps.: An Evening of Recitation and Song, BGSQD, New York, New York, USA

Moving Image Contemporary Video Art Fair, New York Waterfront Tunnel, New York, New York, USA

2012
HEAVY ROTATION, Franklin Street Works, Stamford, Connecticut, USA

2011
Magic For Beginners, PPOW, New York, New York, USA

2009
Harmony Korine: Pigxote, chief videographer of exhibition reception, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, USA

2008
Vienna Biennale 2008, Ve.Sch Galerie, Vienna, Austria

2006
Venue Coordinator, Phiiliip in Paris, Paris Itium Gallery, Paris, Tennessee, USA

2005
If I Had 10 Fingers: An exhib by Daniel Cate, Claudia Dishon, and Rbt. Sps., Curris Center Gallery, Murray, Kentucky, USA

Recent work by Metra Mitchell, Jesse Cooley, Annmarie Campbell, and Rbt. Sps.
The Cube Gallery, Western Kentucky University, Bowling Green, Kentucky, USA

Selected Press, Television, and Radio

Gabrichichidze, Manana. “What The American Director [Rbt. Sps.] Found Wonderful”, GZA Magazine, 21 November 2024, pp. 56-57

Ryder, Gina. “The Art of Being a Super Begins at Dawn” The New York Times, 29 November 2023

Hieges, Nate, host. “The Selection Committee”, Newtown Radio, 17 April 2022

Rian, Jeff. “Richard Prince: I thought this was the end then it started over” Purple Magazine, issue #28, 2017

Clarke, Erin, host. “Mornings on 1”, Time Warner Cable News NY1, New York City, 24 January 2016

Lingan, John. “Clear Victory: A Deep Dive Into The World’s Most Prestigious Water-Tasting Competition” Buzzfeed, 18 June 2015

Johnson, Ken. “Magic For Beginners” The New York Times, 11 August 2011

O’Reilly, Bill, host. “The O’Reilly Factor”, Fox News, 15 May 2006