Today we’d like to introduce you to Royce Soble.
Royce, can you briefly walk us through your story – how you started and how you got to where you are today.
I am an Atlanta Native. I have lived, grown up, and built my life here. I have been making art my entire life.
The desire and passion to create started very early for me.
Art was always a part of my world.
I never was a child that played with dolls. Instead, I preferred to be drawing, doodling or what not.
My love for photography began early as well… Read More
Collection Description
Biographical Note
Royce Soble (1973-) was born in Atlanta, Georgia. In 1998, they received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Georgia State University. They are a photographer, painter, and mixed media artist and has exhibited their work in galleries such as Modern Primitive Gallery, Vaknin Schwartz Gallery, Bluemilk Paradigm Artspace, and Shedspace. Soble has won numerous awards including GA Voice's Best Artist of Atlanta in 2011 and 2012. Read More
A lot went down in gay Atlanta in the ‘90s. At a time when attending Pride and being out were more acts of bravery than matters of fact, Royce Soble was documenting it all with her camera. Now gay-loving Emory announces that Soble’s photos of gay life and the local arts scene in the 1990s will be part of the university's permanent collection. Read More
GA Voice 2014
You’ve most likely seen her at some of the hippest gay and gay-friendly parties and events, shooting photos of DJs and dancers in motion, bright streaks of lights capturing them in the moment. But Royce Soble is also an accomplished painter and will have a solo exhibit at Ponce City Market on Saturday, May 10. Royce, 41, an Atlanta native, is also known for their pouring skills behind the bar at Virginia-Highland hot spot La Tavola, a job that they had since 2000. They also shoots the restaurant’s food photography and portraits. Read More
Peach Magazine Issue V2-37 | Art in Atlanta +The Queer Art Scene +New Gay In Town: End of the Cruise +Art International: Infinity and Beyond... See More Staring at Page 12
Full list of Clients and Publications
The New York Times
Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library of Emory University
The Atlanta Journal & Constitution
EldredgeATL.com
The Baltimore Sun
GA Voice
AM1690 The Voice of The Arts
Project Q
Fifth Group Restaurants
Coca Cola
Georgia Tech
Bloomingdales
Turner Boone Contract
Asha Gomez's The Third Space
Award Winning Southern Chef & Author Scott Peacock
Jamestown Properties
Chadwick Boyd / L + D Enterprises
LR Design Co.
ATLier Prop + Design Studio
ATLastStudios
Leapley Construction
LEAP in and BUILD
Hiscox Business Insurance
Esquire Magazine
The New Yorker
Creative Loafing Atlanta
Atlanta Magazine
Oxford American Magazine
Art Papers
The Hambidge Center
Equally Wed Magazine
Fenuxe Magazine
Simply Buckhead Magazine
Deep South ATL
DAVID Magazine
Peach ATL Magazine
Common Creative ATL
Denueve Magazine
Etc Magazine
Southern Voice
BlueMilk Magazine
SP Sunday Paper Atlanta
Daily Candy
The Quick + Dirty Dirty
Cross Channel Initiative
IXL Post Production Company
LowCo Advertising Firm
Bill Kaelin Marketing
Melissa Libby & Associates
Culture Agency
Bailey Davis Law Firm
DeKalb Medical
TruHaven Realtors
ReMax Realtors
Sister Louisa's CHURCH (it's a bar!)
Woody's Famous Cheesesteaks
Grindhouse Burgers + Villains
Atlanta ActiveWear
K Squared Meals
Michael Schulder's WAVEMAKER
Freedom Barkway Atlanta NPR / WABE’s City Lights with Lois Reitzes Emory Hope Clinic