Artist of MonthFebruaryRogers

Artist of the Month, February 2009

Michael Rogers

Flock, 2007.
Approximately 48" x 72" x 3", kilncast and engraved glass, brass.
Photo: P. Leonard

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“My work in glass reflects my interest in language, literature, transparency, and found objects,” says artist Michael Rogers. “I try to work with objects in the way poets work with words, combining words/objects in such a way as to create new or multiple meanings, more open to viewer or reader interpretations.”


Of particular interest to Rogers are, “things seen and experienced that return to mind again and again.” “I think of this phenomenon as visual resonance,” Rogers explains; “travel, books read, people met, things seen and heard all return in the form of recollections.” “Perhaps making art,” he notes, “is my way of trying to hold on to the ephemera of daily life. There is something profound in even the slightest and most subtle of human experiences. Glass, with its transparency and translucency as a material, is at once there and not there, making it the perfect poetic material to try to capture the fleeting.”


After spending 11 years in Japan where he was head of Aichi University’s Glass Department, artist Michael Rogers returned to the United States where he is now a Professor in the College of Imaging Arts and Sciences at Rochester Institute of Technology in New York. Michael’s work can be found in the permanent collections of the Suntory Museum in Japan, First Contemporary Glass Museum in Spain, Museo del Vidrio in Mexico, National Museum in Lviv, Ukraine, and the Corning Museum of Glass in the United States. He is currently finishing an artist residency at Osaka University of Arts.

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Artist Michael Rogers demonstrating glassblowing in Hong Kong

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We are grateful to Bullseye Gallery for providing the materials for the Artist of the Month.

The Artist of the Month for March will be Vaclav Cigler. Materials will be provided by Heller Gallery, New York, NY.

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