Roger's Galleries

”I think, sometimes, when I am alone, usually when I am making art, about the elements in nature around me. I like to ponder relationships. How everything has its own significant place…how everything is somehow related to everything else. How….most importantly, we don’t readily understand these relationships, yet if one element is missing, an emptiness exists.”

I perceive my major strength as a 'no holds barred' approach to painting. How a painting is accomplished is of little value when in retrospect one observes the sense of spiritualism in the finished product.

Awards - Over 50 awards in National Shows, including the Northern Plains Tribal Arts and Northern Plains Indian Market, Trail of Tears Show and the Red Cloud Show.
Exhibits and Collections - Has exhibited in more than 35 one man shows, over 100 group shows, and has paintings in both national and international collections, including the Department of Interior, Washington, D.C., Oglala Sioux Tribal Health Services Hospital, Pine Ridge, SD, Mountain Bell, Denver, CO, SAFECO Insurance Company of America, Seattle, WA, SEAFIRST Bank Corp., Seattle, WA, Northern Plains Tribal Arts, American Indian Services Inc., Sioux Falls, SD, Museum of Nebraska Art, Kearney, NE, and Pierre Cardin, Paris, France.
Conducts workshops throughout the United States.
Related Experience – Juror, Cherokee Art Market, October, 2008; Juror, Red Cloud Heritage Center Show, June 2008;Tahoma High School Senior Contribution Mural Purchase, 2006; Guest Artist, First Peoples Fund, 2005; Art Juror, Washington 2005; Commissioner, Kent Arts Commission, Kent, WA 1994-1996; City of Denver, Denver Airport 1993-mural; Kent Arts Commission - 1992 - mural; National Indian Physicians of America, poster; AT&T Corporation - 1991 -poster for play; Washington State Arts Commission, 1986-1990 - Artist in Residence; Alaska State Arts Commission, 1985, 1984, 1983 - Artist in Residence.
Media - Monotype, painting (oil and mixed media), drawing, sculpture

Web page last updated December 2009