Roger Chavez

Roger Chavez places his practice as a form of philosophical investigation by beginning with his subject matter as a point of departure. Serving as a motif, his subject becomes a scrutiny of its shadows, shapes, and the space it occupies. He begins with a focus on the same subject over a stretch of time and his subject arrangement rarely changing. His questions elicit responses to how we see the same source differently in time, forming a repository of works of extended trials. The works are open to interpretations and simultaneously giving auras of timelessness, mortality and identity.

Roger Chavez has had solo exhibitions at the Berman Museum of Art, Collegeville, PA, Gross McCleaf Gallery and Rosenfeld Gallery in Philadelphia. He is represented by Stanek Gallery in Philadelphia. Selected group shows include Woodmere Art Museum, Hopkins House for the Contemporary Arts, Haddon, NJ and Cacciola Gallery, New York. His projects and research have been supported by the Franz and Virginia Bader Foundation, Ballinglen Arts Foundation, The Pollock Krasner Foundation, The Vermont Studio Center, and a Serge Sacknoff Prize. Chavez received his MFA from American University, Washington D.C. and completed the Certificate program at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia.

"Fueled by quotidian reality, psychological outcomes in my works insinuate auras of mortality, timelessness, and identity. My painting process involves a significant amount of adding and subtracting of painterly forms, resulting in forms overlaying preceding forms, increasingly concealing the real appearances of the subject matter. In the process, my color palette of muted colors and tonal grays, arrive from the use of the prismatic hues as these afford more vibrant and colorful grays and allow for subtle changes in color and temperature in the paintings."

Chavez teaches Drawing and Painting in the Continuing Education program.