May 2014

Field Guide: The Preface

Landscape and botanical elements are the impetus for Pam Rogers’ exhibitionField Guide: The Preface, as they are the familiar reality we can all acknowledge. Her artistic practice is an outgrowth of her interest in how individuals nurture and develop relationships, and consequently ideas that grow into their desired identities. More broadly, Rogers work addresses cultural issues linked to sustainability and growth on multiple levels. These themes are often combined with the metaphors commonly used in traditional landscape painting.

Using actual plants, as well as pigments she creates out of plant and soil samples that she collects from various locations throughout the US, Rogers creates a direct connection between events, relationships and materials. Her work has always been rooted within the investigation of the dual reality of nature, what we see and visually comprehend in the built world and the natural.

Rogers is intrigued by presenting beauty with elements that challenge the viewer to question what lurks beneath. The exchange that takes place with visual images, memory and perceived past converges within her work results in an ongoing visual narrative. In examining the relationship between people, plants, and place, Rogers continually tries to weave the strings of art and agriculture, myth and magic, healing and hurting into an inquisitive whole that calls us to look at germination of a sustainable future individually and collectively.

Visit the artist’s website at pamrogersart.com