ROGERS GRANTED VISUAL ART AWARD, CANARY ISLANDS, SPAIN
Laboratorio de investigación e innovación en arquitectura urbanismo y cultura (Laboratory of Research and Innovation in Architecture, Urbanism and Culture) based in Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain has granted Ms. Rogers the following award for her Muses Collection:
Prize #laculturaesfemenina for Visual Art 2018
ART LABOR PRESENTS ROGERS' "MUSES" AT PHOTOFAIRS SHANGHAI
September 20 - 22, 2018 - Shanghai Exhibition Center
CHRISTY COMMISSIONED BY BOMBAY SAPPHIRE FOR NYC STREET ART INSTALLATION
Christy is commissioned by Bombay Sapphire, with seven other artists, for Art in Progress, a project to convert NYC construction sites into public art galleries and inspire creativity. Installed at 78 8th Ave, New York City (corner of 14th St & 8th Ave) Dream come true for her.
"MUSES" SCARVES FOR SALE SOON
As part of her Muses Collection, Christy Lee Rogers will be releasing 3 new 100% Silk scarves at 36'' x 36'' and 53'' x 53'' inches each. Link to buy them will be posted soon.
ZONAMACO FOTO FAIR - LTB ART, MEXICO CITY
Established in 2002 by Zélika Garcia, ⓢZONAMACO is the leading art fair in Latin America with four events that take place twice a year during February and August at Centro Citibanamex, Mexico City. https://www.instagram.com/lettherebart/
MILLER GALLERY, ENDLESS SUMMER EXHIBITION
Celebrate the essence of summer with Miller Gallery’s curated group show composed of paintings by Hunt Slonem, Pang Jen, Eduardo Monteagudo, Carlos Gamez de Francisco, Pam Folsom & photography by Christy Lee Rogers.
Bold tones, bright light and refreshing splashes of color accentuate a variety of subject matter which evoke lazy days on the beach, tropical paradises and the flora and fauna that flourish in the sunlight.
Thu, Aug 16, 20189:00 AM Sat, Sep 8, 20185:00 PM
MUSES ON VIEW IN SHANGHAI AT ART LABOR GALLERY - TILL AUG 8TH
"Christy Lee Rogers Makes Baroque-Inspired Masterpieces Through Underwater Photography" The Phoblographer
"Hawaii-based Christy Lee Rogers simply amazes us with underwater photography that we’ve never seen before. Instead of the usual ethereal subjects floating gracefully, she photographs multiple subjects dressed in colorful fabrics to create vivid and elaborate scenes. The result is a visual style that makes creative use of water’s light-bending qualities, and features a painterly look that evokes the imagery of Baroque masters like Caravaggio."
Baroque Underwater Photography by Christy Lee Rogers This is Colossal
"Photographer Christy Lee Rogers produces luminous scenes of swirling figures swathed in colorful fabrics. She creates a painterly quality in her large-scale images not by using wet pigments, but rather by completely submerging her subjects in illuminated water and photographing them at night.
The works shown here are part of Rogers’ most recent series, titled ‘Muses’, which were in response to a year of personal loss. She shared in an interview that “these final images represent a soft and peaceful place that I imagine exists, where you can be free to let go and experience the beauty surrounding you.”
JENNIFER KLEIN COUTURE SELECTS ANGEL IMAGE BY CHRISTY LEE ROGERS FOR NEW DRESS
Couldn't be more thrilled than to have this opportunity to collaborate with Jennifer Klein Couture, Germany on this stunning dress, with one of my images "The Play of Angels"... she's a gem!!! who wants to wear it? https://www.jenniferkleincouture.com https://www.instagram.com/jenniferkleincouture/
ROGERS' HYBRIDS AT LAURA RATHE FINE ART, HOUSTON, TEXAS
HONORED TO SPEND THE DAY WITH ARTIST LU XINJIAN AND HIS FAMILY, SHANGHAI, CHINA
Thank you Martin and Art Labor Gallery for being the best ever!!!
MUSES OPENING AT ART LABOR, SHANGHAI, CHINA JUNE 23RD
CHRISTY LEE ROGERS
MUSES
June 23 – Aug 8, 2018
OPENING RECEPTION: SATURDAY, JUNE 23, 4-7pm
101 Haifang Road, Jing'an District, Shanghai, PR China
www.artlaborgallery.com https://www.instagram.com/artlabor/
Art Labor is thrilled to present new photographic works, new media and textile installation by Hawaiian born artist Christy Lee Rogers (b. 1972), for a solo exhibition opening 23 June, 2018. A pioneer in underwater photographic style and technique, earning her international acclaim, her work embraces the unique quality of light refraction between the surface and layers of water, and her personal approach is to honor and explore the frailty of our existence within the elements around us.
Obsessed with the transformative qualities of water, Rogers uses it once again as her muse, pushing toward a new boundary for herself both artistically and emotionally. This collection of entirely new work, thus titled Muses, is derived from the sources of that inspiration itself, and the depths to which an individual will go to find and hold on to that inspiration, until a new spark of insight is needed, once its predecessor has vanished. It's this mechanism that Rogers delves deep into and what she reveres, as it is common to all of us and never ending. She finds in the creation of a body of work all this trapped passion, which is then finally unleashed in all its glory, but then so it fades and to be desired yet again. Out of this desire to connect with the universe, a quest for certain knowledge of what is beyond our current reality is then intensified, after having had some glimpse of the possibilities deep down into our own ship of treasures, filled with immaterial and material wealth.
The narrative in Rogers’ new waterscapes continues to follow the thread of her most celebrated collections, with a process that allows her and her subjects to experience first hand the vulnerabilities and beauty of the human body in an underwater setting. The colors and cascading bodies take on late Renaissance and Baroque tones, with chiaroscuro contrasts of light and darkness creating movement and purpose within each scene.
As “The Independent" (newspaper) in London has described of her earlier works, "The ethereal payoff is indeed redolent of a mix of Masters – the vivid hues of Titian, the straining bodies of Rubens, the sun-dappling chiaroscuro of Caravaggio, but also the loose brushstrokes and fluid movement of Delacroix; hints, too, of the Tiepolo-esque heavenly ascents adorning many an 18th-century Venetian chapel. Yet, for all these highfalutin qualities, Rogers' subjects were no gods, kings or mythical beasts, but rather her friends, whom she coaxed to writhe around in a local swimming pool – a simplicity that reflects both her method (the pictures are entirely unretouched) and the purity of Rogers' lifelong love of the water.”
For over fifteen years, Rogers has experimented with water in her artistic endeavors; refracting light in it, moving bodies through its layers, combining textiles underneath its surface and finding insight in it’s beauty and chaos. She was born and raised in the Hawaiian Islands, learning a deep respect for the water as a young surfer and boogie border, and continues to find hope and inspiration beneath it’s surface. And the social and environmental importance of protecting water on our planet drives her continuing fascination with it. As she states: “Water is the giver of life”.
ROGERS' "PANTHERA ONCA" IN 2018 SAN FRANCISCO DECORATOR SHOWCASE
Slate Art presents Christy Lee Rogers' "Panthera Onca" in the 2018 San Francisco Decorator Showcase. Interior Design by the amazing Eden Wright Design, photographed by Christopher Stark. The Showcase is widely considered to be the West Coast’s premier design showhouse event, renowned for featuring the work of the region’s top interior and landscape designers. All the funds raised through the Decorator Showcase go directly to support the San Francisco University High School Financial Aid Program.
https://slateart.net www.edenwrightdesign.com https://christopherstark.com
SP ARTE SAO PAULO, BRAZIL
Thank you Gabriel Wickbold Gallery for including me in this years SP ARTE in São Paulo, Brazil.
"Phoenix" (Center) by Christy lee Rogers
ART INSTALLATION LIGHTBOX BY CHRISTY LEE ROGERS FOR KWC
KWC and Franke USA present an art installation by artist Christy Lee Rogers this year in the KBIS show, Orlando.
PAINT THE WEB PINK
Art Labor Shanghai exhibits Christy lee Rogers as part of their new website launch exhibition.. Paint the Web Pink. Jan 21 - Mar 5th
101 Haifang Lu, near Changhua Lu, Shanghai 200041, China
CHRISTY LEE ROGERS TAKES PART IN MILLER GALLERY'S WOMENS GROUP SHOW
CHRISTY DOES THE EAST CUT ART FAIR WITH SLATE CONTEMPORARY
January 12 - 14, 2018 | 160 Spear Street, San Francisco, CA
Public Hours: January 12, 10-5pm | January 13, 10-7pm | January 14, 11-5pm
FRANKE AND KWC COLLABORATION
ON SET IN HAWAII
2018 starts with a bang as Christy preps for a busy year and new Collection for her upcoming show in Shanghai, China with Art Labor Gallery.
