Brooke Rogers

BUYING A PAINTING from Brooke Rogers means you are acquiring a work of art with meaningful connections to both the artist's identity as a free individual, and to any number of veins running through the history of art. Brooke is an artist with the knowledge and experience to produce significant paintings that are enlivened by direct experience, and strengthened by timeless qualities.

BROOKE ROGERS IS A PAINTER from Ocean City, MD. He went to college in suburban Chicago, and then studied with Grace Hartigan at the Maryland Institute in Baltimore, but he ended up back at the beach where he started. Brooke has exhibited widely up and down the Mid-Atlantic, including solo shows in New York, Washington, and Richmond. His first museum show was at the Academy Art Museum in Easton, MD, a premier regional contemporary art venue with a national scope.

BROOKE'S EARLY EXPERIENCE of nature was framed by material culture. A surfboard, after all, is an abstract sculpture. Wetsuits and surf apparel in the New Wave1980’s were covered with colorful patterns. He virtually grew up in a surf shop. On the other hand, his father was a Baptist preacher. Church gave him a sense of the sacred in everything and everyone around him.

1992 Master of Fine Arts (MFA) Hoffberger School of Painting, Maryland Institute, College of Art, Baltimore, MD

SOLO SHOWS

2020 - Smith Brothers, Berlin, MD, "Paintings in the Woods"

2019 - Bayfront Gallery, Ocean City, MD, "An Evening of Art and Song"

2016 - Academy Art Museum, Easton, MD, "Brooke Rogers: In the Offing"

2016 - Salisbury University Downtown Campus, "Brooke Rogers: Line Time"

2015 - Ocean City Center for the Arts, Ocean City, MD, "Surf City"

2014 - Rehoboth Art League, "Sound of Many Waters"

2012 - Mainstage Gallery, Wilmington, DE, "Invisible Cities"

2011 - ArtSpace Gallery, Richmond, VA, "Cause Me To Hear It"

2009 - Atrium Gallery, Salisbury, MD, "Time of the Signs"

2008 - Space 38|39, New York, NY, "Drifter Themes: An Evening of Art and Music"

2008 - Enteros Gallery, Petersburg, VA, "Invisible Cities"

2007 - Water's Edge Gallery, Berlin, MD, "Little Low Heavens"

2007 - Dumbarton Concert Gallery, Washington DC, "The Distance to the Moon"

2007 - Cecil County Arts Council, Elkton, MD, "Pellegrino"

2006 - National Institutes of Health, Clinical Art Program, Bethesda, MD, ”Psalter"

2006 - Arlington Arts Center, Arlington, VA, “Pilgrim”

2005 - Saint Peter’s Church, New York, NY, “Pencil Paintings"

SMALL GROUP SHOWS

2013 - Like the Spice Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

2012 - Te...