Robert T. Rogers

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Painting

Understood. 2025. Oil on canvas. 16 x 20 in. Below light chartreuse space, three mostly red figures, the right an inverted triangle, position over a body of cool colored shapes.

Summer Start. 2025. Oil on canvas. 16 x 20 in. Lively gestural strokes run over constraints; the slight non finito approach underscores dynamic energy.

Regardless. 2025. Oil on canvas. 16 x 20 in. A cadmium and naphthol red rectangle, gray framed, contains vertical Naples yellow strokes near sap green and black, the right black rhythmically tripled, over a black horizontal curve touching a tan base.

Passing Through You. 2025. Oil on canvas. 20 x 16 in. A dark blue shape and two lower yellow rectangles traced by dark blue pull the orange and white diagonally crossed shape from leftward departure.

Transport Setting Sail. 2025. Oil on canvas. 16 x 20 in.

Transport Setting Sail. 2025. Oil on canvas. 16 x 20 in. The imaginary, mainly yellow object plays potential or present locomotion in viridian green space.

All That Time. 2025. Oil on canvas. 20 x 16 in. Expressive strokes and scrapes gather a set of colors, mostly primary with chrome green and titanium white.

Hope Maketh Not Ashamed. 2019. Oil on canvas. 52 x 86 in. Romans 5. A therapeutic community business in the S.S. Pierce Building, a historic Brookline, MA, landmark, acquired a print (31 x 49.4 in.) in 2024.

Comfortable Discussion. 2017. Oil on canvas. 48 x 60 in. Mass General Brigham bought a print in 2024.

abstract painting. 'And There Was War in Heaven' 11/20/17. oil on canvas, 36 x 48 in.

And There Was War In Heaven. 2017. Oil on canvas. 36 x 48 in. Revelation 12:7.

Engaging Revelation

I find that visuals around Coolidge Corner, Brookline, MA, evoke the Book of Revelation. The descriptions explain the perceived connections. Harvard Extension School.

Drawing

Giraffe Props. 2025. Ink on paper. 24 x 18 in. The execution of one of fourteen created composition options. Massachusetts College of Art and Design.

Curious Onion with Liberal Shadow. 2025. Ink on paper. 15 x 15 in. Mark-making emphasis. Massachusetts College of Art and Design.

Proactive Mindset. 2025. Ink on paper. 12.75 x 17 in. String, more often sponged than taut, applied the quick rhythmic strokes to reveal an energized inner state as expressed abstraction. Massachusetts College of Art and Design.

Blessed to Breathe Moderate Breeze

Testimonial. pp. 1 of 2

Testimonial. pp. 2 of 2. Blessed to Breathe Moderate Breeze. Photograph, 2016. 31 x 41.4 in. Direct print on aluminum dibond. Print sold in 2024.

Statement

I create abstract oil paintings, conceptual photographs, and drawings from observation and imagination. I write often.


I believe when I’m mindful, feeling an emotion, or thinking while creating, it influences the work even when I’m trusting the flow and responding visually to a sense of aesthetic. When I use my inner state to form art for others to consume, I’m expressing myself. I’m drawn to revelation.


I write titles and descriptions as insight to my relation with the work. At times my relation is less mental and more technical or spiritual. It’s technical when I describe my palette, brush strokes, edges of shapes as fluid or defined, and scrapes with palette knives. It’s spiritual when the work regards values. Some work blends the traits. For instance, I might name the work based on a feeling or concept and focus my description on the technique or intended interpretation. 


I feel that expressing is therapeutic to me and perhaps the viewer, whether the work is light or dark, calm or dynamic, serious or humorous. Some work brings peace of mind; some underscores mystery, heightens awareness or curiosity, and may raise more questions than answers.


Recent work: InventingVision.com

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