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| My work is often about human conflict and a search for redemption .I am fascinated by what it is to be human at this point in history and how we as people cope with the major questions of life without the security of structured belief systems that preceding generations have always had. We are truly the first lost generation, surrounded by collapsing certainties and I like many artists attest to this process and try to light a match in the dark. |
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| BIOGRAPHY |
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Michelle Rogers grew up in a small-industrialized town in Ireland called Dundalk on the strained border between North and the South, at the height of the troubles. As an artist, although it inspired her, she chose not to dwell initially on the conflict so close to home. Her earliest paintings centered on the Gulf War, and it was in response to this work that Amnesty International selected her to go to Bosnia in 1993. This trip was the impetus for a Dark Heart an impressive series of paintings about the darker side of human nature in which, according to Nicholas Bergman, curator at New York’s Caelum Gallery “she sensitively creates a mood of moral decay, of spiritual darkness and despair, there is, simultaneously, a grandeur to the work, which, harks back to the masters - Goya in particular.”
In 2002 Rogers was invited to show her painting 911 Memorial at the Irish Arts Center in New York. In 2005, A Dark Heart was selected for exhibition at the UN Plaza in New York, marking the 10th anniversary of the Balkan war, and last year her critically acclaimed series Transformations 1, 2 and 3 exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art, Guadalajara, Mexico. She was recently invited to exhibit “Lampedusa” a painting about immigration at St Georges church in Venice during the opening weeks of the Venice Biennale.
Her latest exhibition ”Troubles At Home” looks at patriotism in post 9/11 America from her experiences with Irish patriotism during the Troubles. The acclaimed exhibition was opened at the Track 16 gallery in Los Angelus ,March 2007 by movie director Terry George.In the last year Rogers has had solo exhibitions in Dublin at Paul Kane and Aequalis gallery in Rome and also at Hot Art Fair in Basel in June.
Without question, Rogers is unique among Irish artists, in that her work is hard-hitting and confrontational, dealing with tough subject matters such as war, emigration and sexual repression.
She currently divides her time between Rome, New York and Dublin |
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| EDUCATION |
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Louis ,Dundalk Ireland
Dkit Dundalk.
Dublin Institute of Technology .BA in fine art |
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| REPRESENTATION |
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Paul Kane Gallery Dublin
Aequalis gallery Rome |
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| SOLO EXHIBITS |
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Sept.2009 “On Earth as it is in Heaven” Aequalis gallery, Rome
June 2009 Hot Art fair, Basel
March 2009 ‘I am from where I am” `Paul Kane gallery
Dublin
June 2007 “Lampedusa”, Chiesa del San Giorgio ,Venice ,Italy
March 2007 Track 16 gallery, Bergamot station, Santa Monica. CA
Oct 2006 “Transformations”, Judson memorial Church, New York
May 2006 “ Harlem studies”, Paul Kane Gallery, Dublin
April 2005”Transformations”Museum of Modern Art, Guadalajara, Mexico
Sept 2003“Passages”, Lead white gallery Dublin
June 2003 Transformations 1+2 Chiostro del Bramante , Rome Feb 2003
“ 911 memorial “, Irish arts center, New York July 2001 MAY .97 "The Dark House " Nth Great George's St, Dublin. travelled to Limerick city art gallery,Dundalk Basement art and Drogheda arts center
Oct 1992"The Road to Basra", Project Arts Centre, Dublin. travelled to Dundalk basement art center.
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April 2009 Viterbo art fair
MAY 2007 RHA annual exhibition, Invited artist FEB 2007 “Her-Humanity”, Casa Frela gallery, New York
JAN 2006 Caelum gallery winter show, New York
WINTER 2005 Irish group show China
SEPT 2005 Srebrenica exhibition Columbia University New York JULY 2005 Srebrenica Memorial exhibition, UN Plaza New York
JANUARY 2001 "3 person show" Caelum Gallery, New York MAY 2000
"Feminile Altrove", Galleria Arte e Visive, Rome APRIL.99:
RHA Open, 1997 Dublin, and Prizewinner
OCT. 1993: National Portrait Show, Prizewinner, Dublin JAN 1993: BP.Young European Artists Show, The Barbican London
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Am From Where I Am By Aiden Dunne. Irish Times
March 25 2009.
Malibu Arts Review by Kriss Perres Running Water
of exhibition Troubles at Home at Track 16 gallery in LA March 2007.
Il sole 24 hr”San Silvestro,la notte delle madonne” review of urban poster project “Madonna Clandestino” Dec 2008
Effeto caravaggio all Arco della Pace June 2004,Il Messagero
Trans-formazioni“Michelle Rogers tra originalita a ironia” –Claudio di Biagio
Art and Life D’apres Caravaggio by Angelo Capasso June 2003
TK-eventi Chiostro del bramante transformaions 1+2 05/06/03
Michelle Rogers by Barbara Mc Cormick Irish Connections Magazine spring 2007
March 7 2003 Belfast newsletter “Queens women Step into the light”
Positive art at Queens circa magazine may 7 2002
Mary Carr’Youth has it’s fling at RHA Irish Independent May 1997
Home and Away NY“A Dark Heart “ july 2001
An Irish memorial to Tragedy by Loise Mac Reamoinn 2/17/2003 Irish Voice
“Passages in dark and light” by Chiara Ferguson 11/02/04 Irish Independent
Rinde Homenaje a Caravaggio by Corina Preciado for Mural April 7 2005
Las Pasiones humanas como tributo a caravaggio en el museo de as artes by Monserrat Maulejon lee for Publico
Dignificacion de los grupos marginales a traves del arte by Susana Sanroman april 7 2005
El informador.
“Refugee painting finds sanctuary in Venice “ by John Philips Il velino June 1 2007
“Art and Conflict “ by Kevin Rafter for Sunday Tribune March 21 2007
Art scene cal april 2007 review Track 16.
Art Slant New York april 14 2007
9/11 tribute at irish arts center Irish echo dec ‘02
Michelle Rogers 50 north great geores st ,Dublin by Luke Clancy Irish Times June 5 ,1997
The Road to Basra Project arts center by Mic Moroney Irish Times Oct 1993
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| OTHER INFO |
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published pieces and catalogues
"On earth as it is in heaven"Aequalis gallery Rome
catalogue intro by Achille Bonito Olive
Irish Review 38 .spring 2008 edited by Kevin Rafter
Trans Europa Express Fondazione Ratti .Rome 2008
“Troubles at Home” Smart art press ,Santa Monica 2007
“Her-Humanity” catalogue, Casa Frela gallery, New York 2007
Srebrenica Memorial, catalogue UN Plaza New York 2005
Transformations 1+2 Chiostro del Bramante , Rome 2003
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