Solo Exhibition at Museo de Arte Mazatlan

Would Frida like it? - I wonder as she looks out into the room from my T-shirt.

With some students who visited the exhibition

NEW! Oaxacan Art Vacation in July

Your Oaxacan Art Vacation - July 15 – 24

Glen Rogers leads you on a magical trip to Oaxaca with an opportunity to enjoy printmaking, papermaking, galleries and museums, excursions to Artesan Villages and archeological sites. Enjoy 10 days in the beautiful, colonial city of Oaxaca known for its cuisine, crafts and architecture.

Accommodations - Casa Colonial – A beautiful hacienda style B&B with covered verandas and lush tropical gardens, a gracious living room and library, delicious Oaxaca home-style food, and most of all, personal service with hostess, Jane Robison and hotel manager, Amado Bolaños. Single & Shared rooms available. Within walking distance to Centro Historico.

·        1 Day Papermaking at Arte Papel Vista Hermosa and visiting Centro de Artes de San Agustin, Etla, Oaxaca, a beautiful renovated textile mill under the direction of Francisco Toledo with world class galleries.

·        4 days Monotype Printing at Taller Rufino Tamayo

·        Visits to Monte Albán – Zapotec pyramid, Artesan villages including textiles, black pottery and alebrijes woodcarvings.

·        Guelaguetza Festival (means “offering”) – Monday July 23 - Parades in the streets with beautiful costumes, crafts and optional dance performances.

·        $1000 USD Includes 10 nights at the B&B w. full breakfast, 4 day printmaking workshop, (all materials except printing paper which will be available for purchase.) 1 day papermaking, Van transportation to Artesan Villages.  (Does not include airfare)

Maximum 10 participants. A $200 deposit is required to secure your space. Contact me today if you would like to join our group.

Solo Exhibition at Museo de Arte, Mazatlan in March

This exhibition highlights the large-scale paintings that I have created over the last seven years and is shown alongside the newer work. There is a definite transition in palette from earth tones to the introduction of blue - from strictly symbolic to the appearance of bird shapes. It reflects the essence of my work in paintings and monotype prints showing where I’ve been and possibly where I am going.

The language of Nature, Gaia or Mother Earth with her curves and spirals is universal and has formed the basis of my visual vocabulary.   The spiral mimics the coiled snake who sheds her skin and becomes a symbol for renewal and regeneration. The circle of the moon, feminine, and the sun, masculine, – yin and yang. The circle – wholeness and completion.  Her seeds and buds, the purest of forms conjure up imagery of growth and new life.  The Vesica Piscis, a shape found in sacred geometry - an oval formed by two intersecting circles – a symbol for birth, the womb or birth canal – from which we all emerged. This is a universal language that appears on cave walls, inscribed on rocks and found on pottery shards around the world. I find in them a path to the mystical, magical unknown – the divine sacred.  I connect with these symbols on a spiritual level as a way to connect to the past and to those who have come before us.

My work is often inspired by travel – pilgrimages to sacred sites or artist residencies that have allowed me the time and place to reshape my art.

Some of the work in this exhibition was inspired by trips to England to visit Neolithic sites such as Stonehenge, Avebury and crop circles in the fields, Uluru (Ayers Rock) in  Australia, and the Alhambra in Spain. My residency at Fundacion Valparaiso, Mojacar, Spain inspired a change of palette from strictly earth tones to the introduction of blue. Also during this time, birds began to appear in my work – a symbol for the spirit in mythology. 

Two Prints accepted into the Permanent Collection de Saisset Museum

Two of my works were accepted into the Permanent collection of the de Saisset Museum of Art,
Santa Clara, CA (Silicon Valley) recently.  Both are 30" x 22" monotypes from the "Notes from Uluru" series.

Prints inspired by a trip to Australia Uluru (Ayers Rock).  Walking around the base of the rock, I came upon petroglyphs and did sketches and photos. These are not illustrations however, but intended to give the feel of this mystical sacred space.

Visiting Artist at Bluseed Studios

I am a visiting artist at Bluseed Studios, Saranac Lake, NY this week. Lucky me!

The weather is wonderful -with the leaves changing colors, but still warm enough to kayak on one of the many lakes.  Carol Vossler, director of Bluseed, invited me to come up after my exhibition in Mississippi. We have already had 1 Printmaking Exchange between my studio in Mazatlan and Bluseed in 2010. And Carol returned  in March and created some new prints. We are planning another exchange involving new artists from both regions for 2013. Not only do we get to exchange ideas about printmaking and artmaking - but also it's a way to make new friends and experience another environment. Saranac Lake is situated in the Adirondack Mountains - so mountains, lakes and rivers vs tropical beachtown in mexico.

 

 

Enjoying the Environment!

Exhibition at Colbert Commons, Forest, MS

In September I returned to Forest, Mississippi, where I was born, to have an exhibition of paintings and prints. The old Farmers and Merchant Bank has been converted into a gallery by the City and the Forest Arts Assoc. I remember visiting the bank with my grandmother when I was a child and they've done a great job of transforming the space. The opening reception was well attended by family, friends and community members. I gave a presentation on my work with slides of sacred sites that have inspired me. The show was Sept. 15-30.

Opening Exhibition at Mazatlan International Airport

OMA Mazatlan is proud to present a new project offering art exhibitions at the Airport.
The Opening Exhibition featuring my work will have its reception on September 1 at 1pm.
The exhibitions will change every 3 months.