Barbara Rogers has exhibited widely, both nationally and internationally, including solo exhibitions at major galleries and museums in San Francisco, Seattle, New York, Chicago, Pittsburgh, Scottsdale, Germany, South Korea and the United Arab Emirates.

Her work is in major public and private collections including The Frick Art Museum, University of Pittsburgh, The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, The Crocker Museum (Sacramento, CA), The Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, The Tucson Museum of Art, Arizona State University Museum of Art, The Oakland Museum of Art, and The San Jose Museum of Art.

Barbara’s work has been reviewed in such major publications as The New York Times, San Francisco Chronicle, Oakland Tribune, Seattle Times, Los Angles Times, Art News, Art Forum and Art in America.

Barbara studied with Richard Diebenkorn and Elmer Bischoff at the San Francisco Art Institute. She graduated with a B.SC. degree in Art Education from Ohio State University; she received the Eisner Prize and her MA in Painting from the University of California at Berkeley.

Barbara Rogers has been a faculty member or visiting artist at many major universities in the US and internationally, including the University of California, Berkeley; the San Francisco Art Institute; University of Chicago; San Jose State University; Cooper Union in NYC; and finally at the University of Arizona.  In 2007, after numerous mentoring and teaching awards, Rogers retired and is now Professor Emeritus of Painting and Drawing in The School of Art at The University of Arizona in Tucson, AZ.

In 2010, Barbara accepted a commission for Royal Caribbean International’s Allure of the Seas, the world’s largest cruise ship.  Barbara completed her largest work to-date, a mural for the three-story Adagio dining room that measures a remarkable 27 feet tall and 17.5 feet wide, and sixteen additional paintings measuring 4 feet tall by 10 feet wide. 

Following the success of this commission, Barbara began work on her first comprehensive book, Barbara Rogers: The Imperative of Beauty.  The 224-page book, designed and produced by Marquand Books and distributed by Hudson Hills Press, traces Barbara’s earliest influences and education, the shift in her practice following Hurricane Iwa, and her work since that time, which has grown increasingly complex and ambitious. The book not only documents the progress of an individual artist but also reflects the trajectory of women working in the arts in the latter part of the twentieth and the early part of the twenty-first centuries, and the challenge facing an artist working in the American West outside the world’s major art centers.

On the heels of the launch of the book, Barbara is preparing for her first major retrospective exhibition.  The Imperative of Beauty: A Fifty-Year Retrospective will open at the Tucson Museum of Art in October 2012 featuring over sixty original works from throughout her career.

Visit www.theimperativeofbeauty.com or visit Sarnoff Art Supplies to purchase a copy of Barbara’s book, or visit www.BarbaraRogersArt.com to see more of Barbara’s artwork and for additional information on upcoming events including her 50-year retrospective.

Gallery Representation
Gebert Contemporary – Scottsdale, AZ (http://gebertartaz.com)
Gebert Contemporary – Santa Fe, NM (http://gebertcontemporary.com)
Sherry Leedy Contemporary Art – Kansas City, MO (http://www.sherryleedy.com)
Fresh Paint Art Advisors, Culver City, CA (http://www.freshpaintart.com)
Melissa Morgan Fine Art – Palm Desert, CA (http://melissamorganfineart.com)
Art Böes – Omaha, NE

Email: barbararogers@comcast.net

Website: barbararogersart.com