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Rodger Roundy

Much of my work is concerned with allegorical representations of young women’s rites of initiation into womanhood. Perhaps because I grew up in a house full of boys, the rituals and behaviors of women have always been fascinatingly opaque to me. These paintings, as well as celebrating the formal possibilities (even clutter) of multiple female bodies, also explore the lighter and darker sides of female group dynamics. These images have the potential to be problematic and complicated. I like them exactly for these reasons: they reflect back the mixed messages of my upbringing.

Exhibitions/Bio

EDUCATION

Yale University Bachelor of Fine Arts, 1991

 

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2008 Paul Mahder Gallery

San Francisco, CA

2006 Mississippi State University Art Gallery

Starkville, MS

2005 The Blue Room Gallery

San Francisco, CA

2003 Fade Away (2-artist show with Javier Gil)

Grey McGear Modern

Bergamot Station, Santa Monica, CA

1997 Linetzky Molinero Fine Art

San Francisco, CA

1996 David Levine Gallery

Bern, Switzerland

1995 Clark & Co.

Washington, DC

1993 Arnold & Porter

Washington, DC

 

SELECT GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2007 Paul Mahder Gallery

San Francisco, CA

2003 Grey McGear Modern

Bergamot Station, Santa Monica, CA

2002 Grey McGear Modern

Bergamot Station, Santa Monica, CA

The Blue Room Gallery

San Francisco, CA

2000 Emotionally Annoyed

ESP Gallery

San Francisco, CA

1999 Fall Fundraising Exhibition

Headlands Cener for the Arts

Sausalito, CA

GENART Presents: Emerge

San Francisco Art Institute

San Francisco, CA

1998 7th Annual “Luggage” Show

Luggage Store Gallery

San Francisco, CA

Nothing But Time

Southern Exposure

San Francisco, CA

1997 6th Annual “Luggage” Show

Luggage Store Gallery

San Francisco, CA

Inaugural Show

Linetzky Molinero Fine Art

San Francisco, CA

1995 Post-Pop/Post-Punk

Clark & Co.

Washington, DC

1994 Summer Show

Gallery K

Washington, DC

1993 Small is Beautiful

Gallery K

Washington, DC

Atheneum Museum

Alexandria, VA

1991 Senior Project Thesis Show

Yale University Art Gallery

New Haven, CT

 

SELECTED REVIEWS

Amber Whiteside, “Rodger Roundy at the Blue Room Gallery”, ArtWeek, March, 2005, pp. 18-19

Joyce Slaton, “Clone Zone: The Inner Landscapes of Rodger Roundy”, SF Weekly, January 26, 2005, p. 22

Michael O’Sullivan, “A Painter’s Paws That Refresh”, Washington Post, July 10, 1995, D7

 

WORKS PUBLISHED

Winter (2003) in The Oxford American, Winter 2006, Issue #52, repr. Frontispiece

The Accusation (2001) in Chinmusic, January 2004, Issue #6, repr. Cover

A Cute Girl (1999) in R.K. Ammann and Adrian Weber, Das Cartoonbuch: das Bild, das Handwerk, das Umfeld (Bern, Switzerland: BLMV 1999) pp. 110-13, repr. p. 110