Bryan Rogers Textiles & Faces

Bryan Rogers, an emerging artist, draws on influence from other painters, both colleagues and teachers. His style has been shaped by Folk Art and Outsider Art. His instinct draws him to paint the mundane as bizarre, morphing textile design and layering unexpected, sometimes macabre, elements.

While Bryan paints in a variety of formats and styles, he is consistently concerned with manipulating depth perception in his images. He is simultaneously flattens 3-D compositions with intricate patterning and shallow foreshortening while physically deepening the 2-D plane by synthesizing the frame. The painted assemblages using plastic dolls, fabrics and found objects deepen the picture plane to create a composed theatrical scene. These two styles are intentionally cropped to be contained within their frames; a departures from his previous work which was more open-ended and painterly.

"I am fascinated with the transcended state of my sitters. I fade into the background to observe them in their natural setting," Bryan remarks while blushing. He notes that many of the subjects were reading books, watching TV, or engrossed in conversation. "When they ask for direction, I just tell them to 'be stillish,' whatever makes them comfortable." Their comfort nourishes his inspiration. He composes the primary elements swiftly, his mind completely free of the reoccurring textural palette. It is only when the form is complete that Bryan reflects and designs the surround to create a layered collage style.