Sarnoff's Featured Artist of the Month - Barbara Rogers
Barbara Rogers has exhibited widely, both nationally and internationally, including solo exhibitions at major galleries and museums in San Francisco, Seattle, New York, Chicago, Pittsburgh, Scottsdale, Germany, South Korea and the United Arab Emirates.
Her work is in major public and private collections including The Frick Art Museum, University of Pittsburgh, The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, The Crocker Museum (Sacramento, CA), The Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, The Tucson Museum of Art, Arizona State University Museum of Art, The Oakland Museum of Art, and The San Jose Museum of Art.
Barbara’s work has been reviewed in such major publications as The New York Times, San Francisco Chronicle, Oakland Tribune, Seattle Times, Los Angles Times, Art News, Art Forum and Art in America.
Barbara studied with Richard Diebenkorn and Elmer Bischoff at the San Francisco Art Institute. She graduated with a B.SC. degree in Art Education from Ohio State University; she received the Eisner Prize and her MA in Pai
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About
Barbara Rogers is a textile designer and artist who specialises in exclusive fabrics for fashion and interiors. She has gained international acclaim for her work which incorporates innovative shibori techniques together with more traditional methods.
Rogers now works primarily in shibori, an ancient Japanese resist dye technique. There are infinite ways one can bind, stitch, fold or compress cloth for shibori, each method creates unique patterning effects to work in harmony with the type of cloth used. Combining carved-board, clamped-resist with traditional arashi shibori, Rogers discharges dyes from the fabrics, then overdyes them in other colours to produce highly complex textile finishes.
Her work is available at selected retail outlets across the country, and is represented in international and national collections including The Queensland Art Gallery/Gallery of Modern Art and the Hong Kong Design Institute and many private collections in both Australia and Internationally.
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Featured Artist Barbara Rogers
Artist Barbara Rogers uses botanical and ornamental forms to draw the viewer into her complex paintings. More of her artwork can be found on her website.
“Flow #2” Oil on Canvas, 66” x 60”
I want to remain vulnerable to beauty. I want to be stopped in my tracks by something I call beautiful that I have never noticed or seen before.
“Night Games” Oil on Canvas, 48” x 36”
If your artwork is not readily identified as art that challenges the status quo or in support of social change, then you run the risk of being labeled the maker of beautiful and harmonious paintings. Some call beautiful, abstract painting mere decoration, as if decorative is a pejorative. Yet, every person, every culture, beautifies in its own way.
“Spice Garden” Oil on Canvas, Triptych, 66” x 132”
Even in the most modest settings, people look for ways to bring beauty to their surroundings, to create a sanctuary. Making something beautiful is a necessary act of ritual for many people in the world. This act, in and of itself