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Rick Rogers

Pigment Storm Fine Art

 

Member profile details

Membership level
Affiliate Active Member
First name
Rick
Last name
Rogers
Organization
Pigment Storm Fine Art
Affiliate Photograph/Avatar
Image 1
Image Title 1
Consonance and Dissonance
Image 2
Image Title 2
Ontogenesis
Image 3
Image Title 3
Corrasion
Services Available
  • Commissioned Artwork
  • Subcontracted Art Services
  • Adjudication
  • Workshop Instruction
  • Private Instruction
  • Technique Demonstration
  • Balanced Critique
Media Used
  • Acrylic
  • Collage
  • Color Pencil
  • Digital
  • Graphite
  • Mixed media
  • Photography
  • Printmaking
  • Resin
  • Watercolour
  • Wood
Studio Location Street Address
Rick Rogers - Pigment Storm Fine Art
Visual Arts Studio Association
25 Sir Winston Churchill Avenue
St. Albert, T8N 2S7
Studio Hours and Contact Information
By appointment - please contact at 780.952.3574 or artist@rickrogers.art
Artist Statement
I am an experimental artist.

Science and art are never so far apart as our modern culture would make them seem. As an experimental artist, I see these “opposing” bodies of knowledge as deeply intertwingled. The aesthetics and science of composition, the theoretical and practical pursuit of a deep understanding of the interaction of textures, and the physics and chemistry of paint manipulation are three areas in which I am particularly involved. My work is inspired as often by a scientific principle or an experimental eureka moment as it is by an aesthetic vision.

If I hadn’t become a visual artist, I might have become a mad scientist.
Biography
As an adult, I remember with a touch of amusement, the bitterness of not finding finger paints in my stocking on Christmas morning. Who could really blame Santa? But the simple joy of playing with those squishy pigments at grade school is a sensation that remains vivid for me today. Art and design have always been interests for me, but aside from relentless doodling, focused art-making was set aside after junior high for academics and athletics.

A work assignment away from home was the catalyst for my return to art-making. I thought I needed a pastime, but so enjoyed a drawing course that art became much more. Sketching and drawing shifted quickly to printmaking and painting, first with watercolours, then acrylics and oils, and finally with mixed media. My background in science led to study and experimentation with each medium until I naturally gravitated to the versatility of acrylics as a base medium with mixed media elements. And science has naturally become a familiar and prevailing ally to my artistic practice.
CV Highlights
Representation

Art Gallery of St. Albert
2010 – PRESENT, 19 PERRON STREET, ST. ALBERT, AB
Studio Connexion Gallery
2015 – PRESENT, 1203 FIFTH AVENUE, NAKUSP, BC

Public Art

Read between the Lines, The Works Festival, EDMONTON, JUNE – JULY 2019
#YEGCANVAS Billboard Commission, EDMONTON, FEBRUARY – MARCH 2018

Feature Exhibition History

Home, Home on the Brink, The Carrot Community Arts Coffeehouse, EDMONTON October 2020
Symbols of Homo Clairensis, Walterdale Playhouse (ASA), EDMONTON June 2019
Reading Texture, Public Library, ST. ALBERT, NOVEMBER – DECEMBER 2018
TheOlogies, Jubilee Auditorium, CALGARY, FEBRUARY – APRIL 2017
Textural Dimensions, VASA, ST. ALBERT, OCTOBER 2016 (duo with Pam Baergen)
TheOlogies, Jubilee Auditorium, EDMONTON, OCTOBER – DECEMBER 2016
TEXTURE, Studio Connexion Gallery, NAKUSP, JULY 2015

Awards/Nominations

Honorable Mention Award, ISEA 29th Annual Juried Experimental Art Exhibit
2020, INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY OF EXPERIMENTAL ARTISTS
Merit Award, ISEA 2019 Member Only Online Exhibition
2019, INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY OF EXPERIMENTAL ARTISTS
Merit Award, ISEA 26th Annual Juried Experimental Art Exhibit
2017, INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY OF EXPERIMENTAL ARTISTS
Lieutenant-Governor Lois E. Hole and Harriet Winspear Endowment Scholarship
2014, UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA, EDMONTON
Established Artist Award Nominee
2014, MAYOR’S CELEBRATION OF THE ARTS, ST. ALBERT, AB
Harry Wohlfarth Memorial Award
2009, UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA, EDMONTON, AB

Juried Designations

ISEA - 2020, International Society of Experimental Artists - Signature Member
ISAP - 2019, International Society of Acrylic Painters – Signature Member
Accepted (juried without designation) - 2019 Federation of Canadian Artists – Active Member
Achieved Juried Member status - 2018 Alberta Society of Artists but withdrew from membership and gave up status in 2021
SWCA 2014, Society of Western Canadian Artists – Signature Status

Federation of Canadian Artists Edmonton Chapter

Edmonton, Alberta

edmonton@artists.canto

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