a group exhibition at Claire Oliver Fine Art, New York, NY, other artists include Aaron Johnson, William T. Wiley, Herb Jackson, Utf Puder, Rina Banerjee and Jesse McCloskey, opening January 28th, 6-8 pm, through Marc...
a group show curated by Hesse McGraw, other artists include Nils Folke Anderson, Tim Bavington, Nate Boyce, Michelle Grabner, Amy Granat, Mary Heilmann, Matthew Kluber, Takeshi Murata, Ara Peterson, Eli Ping, Eric Sall, Colin Smith, at the Bem...
a group exhibition, other artists include Katherine Bernhardt, Kadar Brock, Mark Gibson, Matt Jones and John Newsom, Heist Gallery, New York, NY, January 21-February 21, 2010
in the group show "Never Can Say Goodbye," presented by No Longer Empty, East 4th Street and Broadway (the prior flagship location of Tower Records), New York, NY, January 15 - TBA, 2010. The ...
a group show at The Butcher’s Daughter, Ferndale, MI, curated by Valaire Van Slyck, January 9-February 20, 2010. Other artists include Sarah Bassett, Michael Bevilacqua, Erik den Breejen, Brock Enright, Jack F...
Les Rogers, Installation view, 2010
Leo Koenig Inc. is pleased to announce the opening of a solo exhibition of new paintings by Les Rogers entitled Last House.
In previous work, Rogers has incorporated quotation and appropriation from a variety of sources, both historical and popular. In this show, Rogers continues to move away from this, creating his own visual dictum, eschewing quoting particular works while instead making gestural references that give cues to a variety of antecedents
The exhibition Last House is partly inspired by new surroundings. Moving between the diaphanous haze of memory and the sharp focus of the immediate, Rogers creates paintings that beguile with possibilities. Originating with a glance at something vaguely familiar, the paintings unfold themselves to the viewer gradually. The large and medium scaled works allude to wide genus of painting ranging from landscapes to interior scenes; still lifes to nudes. Rogers’ approach encourages a sort of mimetic syncopation, providing a palette that is at once comforting and slightly foreboding,
In the fragmentary nature of this body of work, we are given snippets of information, slivers of light that illuminate a transitory moment, but the “whole” is never revealed. Form gives way to atmospheric perspective, as the canvases present narratives that are open-ended and questioning. The artist’s effortless merging of abstraction and realism; the familiar and arcane, allows entry into a world that the viewer can ultimately make his/her own.
Les Rogers holds a BFA from Rhode Island School of Design. He has exhibited internationally, most recently at galleries such as Galleria Marabini, Bologna, Italy, Galeria Maisterravalbuena, Madrid, Spain, Galerie Suzanne Tarasieve, Paris, France, and Karlheinz Meyer, Karlsrue, Germany. Les Rogers lives and works in New York City.
Gallery hours are Tuesdays through Saturdays 10 – 6 pm. For further information and/or visuals, please contact Elizabeth Balogh or Nicole Russo.
