The Texas-born artist Deborah Roberts works in collage, a medium, she says, that allows her to “create a more expansive and inclusive view of the Black cultural experience.” Her primary subject is children, who are shaped from an early age, she observes, by racism, inequality, and punishing body-image ideals. This exhibition at the FLAG Art Foundation brings together works on paper and large-scale paintings; it also debuts Roberts’s ceramic sculptures. One of these, titled Zuri—meaning “beautiful” or “good” in Swahili—is a bust of a young girl that asks viewers to recognize the often-overlooked beauty and potential of Black children. In the paintings and collages, Roberts transforms grocery store signage as a way to explore the foods that were once given to enslaved people but have now been recast as delicacies. —Jeanne Malle