Robbie Rogers
Bio: Robbie Rogers (b. 1996) is from Los Angeles and lives and works in New York City. He received his BA in Art from University of California, Los Angeles and is currently an MFA candidate in Visual Arts at Columbia University, expected 2023.
http://robbie-rogers.com/
Thesis Exhibition
Artist Statement: If the photograph is a tool from which I understand my body through its depiction, it is therefore necessary, much as one would do undressed in front of a mirror, for me to caress and prod the photograph, to articulate its physical limits. While my body is flattened under the weight of capture, once it is material, the photograph is resuscitated. Accentuated through physical intervention, the work throbs as a body in space. The physical manifests as black steel screws, L-pins and plexiglass, the depicted as torn and cut paper, sanding, dust and fingerprints.
The practice observes where image material conjures the photographic and finds a momentary stillness. In thinking of images as material circling a drain, the practice is a reaching into the drain, pulling out the clump of hair and conditioner and detangling the slop. The sexy is latent in the sticky, gungy, and awkward.
L to R: Basted Blizzard (24" x 17", All weather adhesive vinyl on dibond, 2022); Robbie Underscore Triptych (verso), (24" x 42", Wood panel, enhanced matte paper,
plexglass, screws, and wood fill, 2023); Poles in Plaid (Inkjet paper, plexiglass, and L-pins , 2022); Robbie Underscore Triptych (60" x 90", Wood panel, enhanced matte paper, plexiglass, screws, and wood fill, 2022);
First Year Exhibition
Basted Blizzard (Dimensions variable, Dibond Panel, 2022)
