Selected Solo Exhibitions
2003 Barbara Rogers: New Work, Chiaroscuro Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
2002 Project Paradise, Vanier Galleries, Scottsdale, Arizona
2001 Natural Facts: Unnatural Acts, Tucson Museum of Art, Tucson, Arizona
2001 Hothouse Hybrids, Vanier Galleries, Tucson, Arizona
2001 Garden of Feminine Reason, Oskar Friedl Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
2000 The Garden as Theatre, Vanier Galleries, Scottsdale, Arizona
2000 Dreaming of Eden: Meditations on the Garden, Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Scottsdale, Arizona (catalogue)
1999 Structuring Nature, Eleanor Jeck Galleries, Tucson, Arizona
1998 Her Garden: Objects and Sites Remembered, Etherton Gallery at the Temple of Music and Art, Tucson, Arizona
1997 Recent Paintings, Sandy Carson Gallery, Denver, Colorado
1997 Earthy Pleasures: The Garden as Source, Jewish Community Center, Tucson, Arizona
1996 Personal Eden, One West Art Center, Fort Collins, Colorado
1995 Ponds: The Garden Mirroríd, Frederick Spratt Gallery, San Jose, California
1994 Constructing Paradise, University of Arizona Museum of Art, Tucson, Arizona
1994 Eccentric Gardens by Eccentric Women, Selby Museum of Botany and the Arts, Sarasota, Florida
1993 Barbara Rogers: Recent Work, Georgia State University, Atlanta, Georgia
1992 Barbara Rogers: Paintings on Paper, Frauen Museum, Bonn, Germany
1991/2 Bilder Uber dem Wasser, touring exhibition, co-sponsored by United States Information Agency, Deutsche Welle, Cologne; Badner Halle, Rastatt; Haus an der Redoute/Bonn Museum of Art; Bonn- Bad Godesburg; Haus Dacheroden, Erfurt (catalogue)
1987 University of the Pacific Gallery, University of the Pacific, Stockton, California
1981 Michael Berger Gallery, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
1980 Marianne Deson Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
1978 Michael Berger Gallery, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
1977 Hansen-Fuller Gallery, San Francisco, California
1976 Linda Farris Gallery, Seattle, Washington
1975 Michael Walls Gallery, New York, New York
1973 San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California
1969 Michael Walls Gallery, San Francisco, California
1968 Michael Walls Gallery, San Francisco, California
Selected Group Exhibitions
2003 New Collection, Trinity Gallery Atlanta, GA.
2003 43rd Invitational, Longview Museum of Fine Arts, Longview, Texas (catalog)
2002 Water, Vanier Galleries, Scottsdale, Arizona
2002 As Real as It Gets, Tucson Museum of Art, Tucson, Arizona
2002 Survival of the Fittest, Gallery Art Böes, Omaha, Nebraska
2001 Neobotanica: Flora by Four Contemporary Artists, Jacksonville Museum of Modern Art, Jacksonville, Florida
2001 Necessary Beauty, R.B. Stevenson Gallery, San Diego, California
2001 Paper, Marshall Way Gallery, Vanier Galleries, Scottsdale, Arizona
2001 In Celebration: A Century of Arizona Women Artists, Desert Caballeros Western Museum, Wickenburg, Arizona
2001 Small Paintings, Weber State University, Ogden, Utah
2000 The Buddha Show, Oskar Friedl Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
2000 Flora, Jan Cicero Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
2000 Atelier 2000, Fresh Paint Art Advisors, Culver City, California
1999 Organic Matters, Carlsten Gallery, University of Wisconsin, Stevens Point, Wisconsin
1998 Another Arizona: A State-Wide Juried Exhibition, Nelson Fine Arts Center, Arizona State University Art Museum, Tempe, Arizona
1997 The Permanent Collection: Recent Acquisitions, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, California
1995 Nature/Culture: Meeting at the Border, Allrich Gallery, San Francisco, California
1995 Skirting the Decorative, Harbor Gallery, University of Massachusetts, Boston, Massachusetts
1994 Pencil to Paper, One West Art Center, Fort Collins, Colorado
1992 Human/Nature, Allrich Gallery, San Francisco, California
1989 Embracing Change, San Jose State University, San Jose, California
1989 Selections 49, Drawing Center, New York, New York
1989 Primal Forces, Womenís Caucus for Art, Cooper Union, New York, New York (national)
1989 Landscape: A Presence, San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose, California
1989 Looking North: New Work from the Bay Area, Gensler and Associates/Architects, Los Angeles, California
1988/9 Art Across America: Artists and Their Students, toured: Tucson, Arizona; DeKalb, Illinois; Eugene, Oregon; Seattle, Washington; Hayward, California
1988 Artists Choose Artists, Falkirk Cultural Center, San Rafael, California
1988 Fiftieth Anniversary of the San Jose Art League, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, California
1988 Tropical Topics, Monterey Peninsula Museum of Art, Monterey, California
1987 True North, Far West, Rosemont Gallery, Regina Saskatchewan, Canada
1987 University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Canada
1987 The Extended Figure, Hayward State University Art Gallery, Hayward, California
1987 Print San Jose II: A Traveling Exhibition, San Jose Art League Downtown Gallery, San Jose, California
1986 American Cultural Center, touring: Islamabad, Pakistan and Lahore, Pakistan; Brussels, Belgium
1985 Flowers on a Grand Scale, Carnegie Museum, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
1985 Tropics Exotics, One Market Plaza, San Francisco, California
1985 In the Advent of Change, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California
1985 Sprayed Paint, Ohlone College, Fremont, California
1985 Stars, Fuller Goldeen Gallery, San Francisco, California
1985 Unity of Opposites: Art about Architecture, Palo Alto Cultural Center, Palo Alto, California
1985 Flora and Fauna, One Market Plaza, San Francisco, California
1984 Magnolia Editions: Selected Prints, Smith-Anderson Gallery, Palo Alto, California
1984 Sixteen Contemporary Realists, Modesto, California
1983 The San Jose Print, San Jose Art Center, San Jose, California
1983 Tropical Visions by California Artists, Chevron Gallery, San Francisco, California
1982 Northern California Realist Painters, Redding Museum and Shasta College, Redding, California
1982 The Artist and the Airbrush, San Jose State University, San Jose, California (catalogue)
1981 Forty Famous Californians, Judith Christian Gallery, New York, New York
1981 Contemporary American Realism: Works on Paper, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA
1980 Photo-Realist Painting in California: A Survey, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA
1980 Sonoma Drawing Show, Sonoma State University, Sonoma, California
1980 Neo-Romanticism of the Eighties, Gallery Yves Arman, New York, New York
1978 Drawings: Just Drawings, Helen Euphrat Gallery, Cupertino, California
1977 Downtown Dog Show, Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco, Downtown Center, San Francisco, CA
1976 Twenty Bay Area Painters, Richmond Art Center, Richmond, California
1975 Six Painters, Six Attitudes, Oakland Museum, Oakland, California
1975 Realism in Painting and Ceramics, Helen Euphrat Gallery, Cupertino, California
1975 Images of Woman, Linda Farris Gallery, Seattle, Washington
1975 The Classic Revival, Illinois Bell Telephone, Chicago, Illinois (catalogue)
1974 Seventy-First American Exhibition, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois (catalogue)
1974 Contemporary American Painting and Sculpture, Urbana-Champaign, Illinois (catalogue)
1973 Northern California Artists, Sonoma State College Art Gallery, Rohnert Park, California
1973 Twelve Painters of the Human Figure, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, California
1972 Realist Painting: Twelve Viewpoints, One Hundred and Eighteen: An Art Gallery, Minneapolis, MN
1971 California State University, Fresno, California
1971 College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland, California
1971 Centennial Exhibition, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, California
1971 San Francisco Museum, San Francisco, California
1970 The Peaceable Kingdom, Michael Walls Gallery, San Francisco, California
1970 West Coast 1970, Crocker Art Gallery, Sacramento, California (biennial invitational)
1969 New Realist Painters, University of California, Davis, California
1965 Painting and Drawing Annual, Richmond Art Center, Richmond, California
1965 Painting and Sculpture Annual, Richmond Art Center, Richmond, California
Gallery Representation
Trinity Gallery, Atlanta, 2003
Bibliography
San Jose Museum of Art, 2003, Joanne Northrup, Tales of Yellow Skin: The Art of Long Nguyen
Tucson Weekly, Best of Tucson, 9/2002
Marquis Whoís Who in America, 1975 to present
Marquis Whoís Who in American Art, 1975 to present, Jacques Cattell Press, Tempe, Arizona
Foothills Today, 1998-99 edition, Tucson Citizen, Tucson, Arizona
New American Paintings, 1997, Open Studios Press, Wellesley, Massachusetts
Carlos Villa (Project Director), Worlds in Collision: Dialogues on Multicultural Art Issues, 1995, International Scholars Publications
Encyclopedia of Women Artists (two volumes), 1995, Garland Press
Women in Art 1992 calendar, Pomegranate Artbooks, Petaluma, California
Contemporary Women Artists 1991, 1990 and 1989 calendars, Pomegranate Press, Petaluma, California
California Artists 1990 calendar, California International Arts Foundation
Thomas Albright, Art in the San Francisco Bay Area 1945-1980, 1985, University of California Press
Robert Paschal and Robert Anderson, The Art of the Dot: Advanced Airbrush Techniques, 1985, Van Nostrant Reinhold and Company, New York, New York
New Horizons 1982 calendar, Pomegranate Press, Corte Madera, California
Public Collections
University of Arizona Museum of Art, Tucson, AZ
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California
Arizona State University Nelson Fine Arts Center, Tempe, Arizona
University of Arizona, museum of Art, Tucson, AZ
Oakland Museum, Oakland, California
San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, California
Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Scottsdale, Arizona
University of California, Berkeley, California
University of Arizona College of Nursing, Tucson, Arizona
Mills College, Oakland, California
Evergreen College, Olympia, Washington
AT&T Corporation, New York, New York
Duke Power and Energy Corporation, Houston, Texas
Bank of America, San Francisco, California
Prudential Insurance Company, California
Kemper Insurance Company, Chicago, Illinois
EstÈe Lauder Foundation, New York, New York
Lowe Enterprises, Tucson, Arizona
Kaiser Permanente Hospitals, Santa Rosa, California
Sunstone Cancer Support Foundation, Tucson, Arizona
Atlantis II Resort, Bahamas
Lucayan Resort, Bahamas
Wadington Resort, Steamboat Springs, Colorado
Italian Sea Princess Cruise Lines, Miami, Florida
Ritz Carlton Hotel, Washington, District of Columbia
Sheraton Hotel, Boston, Massachusetts
Pasadena Hotel, Pasadena, California
Inverness Hotel, Denver, Colorado
Pointe South Mountain, Phoenix, Arizona
Anthem Country Club, Dallas, Texas
Public Slide Lectures
2003 Phoenix Museum of Art, Phoenix,AZ
2001 Colby College, Waterville, Maine
2001 Maine College of Art, Portland, Maine
2000 Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Scottsdale, Arizona
1999 J.F.K. University, Berkeley, California
1999 Mills College, Oakland, California
1997 University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas
1996 One West Contemporary Art, Fort Collins, Colorado
1995 Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado
1993 Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona
1993 Georgia State University, Atlanta, Georgia
1991 America House, Cologne, Germany
1990 Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado
1989 San Jose State University, San Jose, California
1988 Society for the Encouragement of Contemporary Art (S.E.C.A.), San Francisco Museum of Art, San
Francisco, California
1988 Continental Breakfast Club, Press Club, San Francisco, California
1988 M.F.A. Seminar, California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland, California
1987 University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona
1987 University of Pacific, Stockton, California
1986 Fresno Art Center and Museum, Fresno, California
1983 San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, California
1982 University of Washington, Seattle, Washington
1982 Saint Maryís College, Notre Dame, Indiana
1980 University of Chicago, Midway Campus, Chicago, Illinois
1980 University of California, Berkeley, California
1976 Sonoma State College, Rohnert Park, California
1974 Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, California
Awards and Grants
1999 Richard Florsheim Art Fund
1996 Advising/Mentoring Award, University of Arizona College of Fine Art, Tucson, Arizona
1992/3 Fine Arts Summer Research Grant, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona
1991 International Travel Grant, University of Arizona Office of International Programs, Tucson, Arizona
1991 Research Grant, University of Arizona Office of Vice President for Research, Tucson, Arizona
1991 Professional Development Grant, Arizona Commission on the Arts, Phoenix, Arizona
1963 Eisner Prize in Painting, University of California, Berkeley, California
Academic Positions
1990-03 Professor of Painting and Drawing, University of Arizona School of Art, Tucson, Arizona
1991/2 Professor and Graduate Coordinator, Department of Art, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona
1990/1 Professor and Faculty Assistant to Department Head, Department of Art, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona
1987/90 Professor and Chair of Graduate Program in Painting, Sculpture and Ceramics, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, California
1983/7 Professor and Chair, Department of Painting, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, California
1978/83 Adjunct Professor, Department of Painting and Drawing, San Jose State University, San Jose, California
1977/8 Visiting Faculty Member, Department of Painting and Drawing, Contra Costa College, El Sobrante, California
1975 Visiting Faculty Member, Department of Painting and Drawing, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington
1974 Visiting Faculty Member, Department of Painting, San Francisco Art Institute
1972/3 Visiting Faculty Member, Department of Painting and Drawing, University of California, Berkeley, California
1965/8 Associate Faculty Member, Department of Painting and Drawing, University of California, Berkeley, California
1964 Assistant Director, Northport Public Schools Art Education Program, Northport, New York
Education
1963 Master of Arts in Painting, University of California, Berkeley, California
1961 Studied with Richard Diebenkorn, Elmer Bischoff and Frank Lobdell at The San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA
1962 Studied with Nathan Oliviera at California Collegeof Arts and Crafts, Oakland, CA
1959 Bachelor of Science in Art Education, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio
Artist Statement
For many years I used the airbrush to create large super-surreal canvasses depicting eroticized subjects in lush tropical gardens. My early work was informed by San Francisco Bay Area public and private gardens. To achieve more variety in my plant images and to find ideas for my paintings, I made arrangements to visit private gardens in Kauai and in the early eighties traveled to Hawaii. My purpose for going was never realized because within a few hours of my arrival in Honolulu, the island of Oahu was hit with the devastating hurricane Eiwa. I feel fortunate to have experienced a destructive element of nature that left me in awe of the raw power of the earth and to have escaped with my life. I took shelter in a house located on a beach that sustained a serious beating from enormous waves and ninety miles per hour winds. The beautiful gardens Iíd planned to study on Oahu were destroyed. The hurricane however, turned out to be a catalyst for substantially altering my work in terms of both content and technique.
Prior to leaving Hawaii, I was surprised to find myself drawn to the detritus left from the storm instead of to the remaining tropical foliage. I photographed and gathered plant debris to bring with me to my studio. I studied this plant debris in photographs and detailed drawings. When I resumed painting, the airbrush and acrylic paint no longer satisfied me. I began to investigate oil paint and a variety of ways to use it in order to address my interest in the micro, the macro and the changes brought about by aging and trauma to botanical forms in a landscape.
In 1990 I visited a stunning and eccentric thirty-five acre garden in Montecito, California, which made me feel as though I were walking into one of my early paintings. It seemed more like living, site-specific sculpture than any other garden I have ever seen. In this garden plant materials form shapes, color fields and enclosures that are almost surreal. I could not get the beauty of the experience from my mind. From this experience I eventually realized that I wanted to study and visit other gardens created to be works of art in and of themselves. A research project was born and now the experience of first tracking down and then studying a newly discovered garden continues to be exciting and profound. The desire to absorb as much information as possible about combinations of textures, variety of forms and exotic plant specimens has led to my current project of researching specific gardens. I explore in a painterly process not only the relationships between forms and colors that are unique to that site, but also the history and development of a particular garden and its creator or creators. In certain series I combine painting with photography; for some works I embed actual plant debris discovered on my garden tours into the canvas or panel.
In my most recent drawings, paintings and photographs I address the garden as metaphor for life cycles, chaos and order. The possibilities in generating new work from the excitement that I derive from cultivated landscapes is without limit. I want to examine the garden further as a fundamental pivot where nature and culture convene and where personal desire can assume political significance.
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