Assorted paintings of ghosts. 2016-2018. 

Following the sudden loss of my mother, the idea of art-making seemed silly and pointless. In an attempt to stay busy and keep my mind clear, I began to visit my studio to push paint around. I abandoned my ongoing studio projects and began painting the only thing that I could think of, ghosts. 

A collaboration with my sister, artist Anne Clare Rogers, 2016

Exhibition Statement:

We are sisters who grew up in a small house, sharing a room with one another. As a result, much of our daily life consisted of careful negotiations about preferences and ownership of ideas and objects. The fight for autonomy and privacy was a constant and futile.

As adults we independently became artists, and it is clear that we our influenced by many of the same memories, touchstones and visual reference points. In our first collaboration as artists, we borrow from our greatest visual influence, our mother. She was constantly putting her stamp on everything in the house; painting, stenciling, and methodically creating images drawn from her imagination and memories of her own childhood.  For this exhibit we have deconstructed one of her most common artworks, a small and simple portrait of her own mother. Building from the simple shapes of her composition, we have created work that also references the language of domestic cat furniture, a visual stand-in for the desire for a private space within a home, a way to be together yet alone.

Studio shots of  work created from Baltimore Museum of Art dumpster refuse and recycled materials from my studio, meant to be stacked, arranged and rearranged by visitors. 2015-2016.

Assorted drawings, digital collages and prints. Images are scanned and repeatedly reproduced for use in ongoing collage projects.

Project Space, School 33, Baltimore, MD, 2014.

Exhibition Statement

Using decorative pillows as a jumping off point, this exhibit was created using slow processes of collage, drawing, painting, decoupage, paper mache and gel transfer printing. Themes of home, domestic spaces, apparatuses and household labor have long been present in Margaret Rogers’ work; frequently using lightweight, fragile and degradable materials that cannot actually function as the objects and spaces that they represent. These materials are accessible and have a sense of urgency and immediacy to them; they reference issues of childhood and class. This particular exhibit, I would like everything that I’m entitled to, focuses in on DIY culture and interior design media, both celebrating and laughing at the objects and ideas these outlets present. Images are made by first hand-drawing patterns and objects, often appropriating the vacant iconography frequently found in design objects. These drawings are then cheaply reproduced and collaged onto the pillow-like surfaces. The resulting objects are sincere parodies.

Various collages from an ongoing series.

MFA Thesis Exhibit, North Ave Market Space, April 2012

 Walls built for installations and animation sets displayed as paintings and sculptures. Each wall is approximately 6 ft x 4 ft. 2012.