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Altman
Siegel is pleased to present Stay
Home,
an exhibition of new work by Will Rogan.
This exhibition, which opens on September 10th, will include new photographs,
drawings and sculptures by the
San
Francisco based artist.
Will
Rogan's practice reflects the poignant,
ironic,
disastrous and beautiful in the urban and domestic landscapes around him.
Rogan uses this material for
artistic
interventions in the form of photography, video and sculpture, which
often
highlight the profound and analytical in everyday life. Several formal
motifs run through
this
new series uniting the various components of the exhibition, such
as
photographs of eyes looking back at the camera lens, creating
self-conscious
objects that reference both themselves and the image they depict. Often
taking a playful stance
on
mundane situations and structures, Rogan's work merges the critical with
the
poetic.
In other new work,
Rogan
repurposes media from the 1970s into self-referential objects that speak
to
their own impermanence.
Obliquely
referencing themes of Memento Mori and Vanitas, he photographs a 35 year old
book
on the subject of time to speak to the fact that everything suffers
from
impermanence, even texts that seek to confront the subject directly. Other
works depict people fading
into
blackness, disappearing magicians and unknown artists whose work has faded
from
popular view. Rogan
investigates
the arc of time, yet avoids nostalgia by focusing on the humor and
warmth
imbued in the objects and situations that create the present.
Will
Rogan's work will be featured in the
upcoming
Orange County Biennial. He has
an
extensive exhibition history, including shows at the Berkeley Art
Museum,
SFMOMA, the Oakland Museum, Mercer Union, Toronto, ON, BE-PART Platform voor
actuele kunst,
Waregem,
Belgium, Laurel Gitlen, NY, Misako and Rosen and the Mori Art Museum,
Tokyo,
the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, Jack Hanley Gallery, the Lab and
Southern
Exposure in San Francisco, and Gasworks Gallery, London. In 2002 Will
Rogan was the recipient
of
SFMOMA's
SECA
award. Will Rogan is also
the
co-editor and founder of the quarterly journal of editions, The Thing.
For
more
information, please contact the gallery at 415-576-9300 or info@altmansiegel.com.
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