Anonymous Heroes/ United Spirit (NYC)

“Looking Down on Social Injustice” 60 x 40 inches, oil on canvas 2012

[From Michelle Rogers]:

Hi Paul

I'm a big fan of what you guys are doing, it is so incredibly inspirational. Over the last few months I have being doing this series of paintings about Occupy and the Arab spring. I live in Italy and have brought this work over to NY. I'm sending you some info about the show which opens Thursday at 516 w 25th St. Here is link to my street art project outside wall st stock exchange in 2010 protesting this crazy system:

http://www.luxist.com/2010/05/25/wall-street-panic-becomes-street-art-project/

Really hope you can make the show!

All the best,

Michelle

 Anonymous Heroes/ United Spirit: Occupy and the Arab Spring

Opening March 8^th -16^th New York City:

Ten new paintings by artist Michelle Rogers showing a world in change—an artist’s celebration of the anonymous heroes of Occupy Wall Street and the Arab Spring. Two years after her poster project portraying stock traders in distress (article here) over the global economic meltdown they had created was placed outside the Stock Exchange on Wall Street, Rogers has returned to the theme of social unrest for her latest work.“We are living in exciting times with the Occupy movement and the Arab Spring.  I want to convey in my artwork the energy, tension, hope and collective/personal courage that I find so captivating and humbling. We are witnessing an unstoppable, insuppressible desire for change in the world. Occupy is important because it underscores the deep injustices in our society and challenges everyone to envisage a new future. It is this revolutionary spirit and the unsung ordinary heroes that I want to pay homage to in my paintings about Occupy and the Arab Spring.”

Opening Thursday, March 8^th at 516 W 25^th Street, 6:00-8:00 pm
By Appointment Only all other timesFor inquiries call: Phone (646) 884-3953
Email michelle_rogers@hotmail.com

Closing reception March 16^th from 5:00-9:00 pm

Artist Bio

Michelle Rogers grew up in Dundalk, Ireland, on the border between the Northern and Southern regions of the country at the height of the Troubles. As early as 1993, Amnesty International selected her to go to Bosnia, an experience that resulted in a series of paintings about the darkest side of human nature. In 2002, she was invited to show her painting 9-11 Memorial, a tribute to those lost on September 11, at the Irish Arts Center in New York City. Other important exhibitions include Transformations 1.2.3 Tribute to Caravaggio at the Museum of Modern art in Guadalajara, Mexico and at the Chiostro del Bramante in Rome, and Troubles at Home, a series, which examines the notion of patriotism in North America following the 9-11 attacks, exhibited at Track 16 gallery in Los Angeles. Her large painting Lampedusa, explores the plight of immigrants in Italy, which was shown both at the Judson Memorial Church in New York City and in St. George Church in Venice during The Venice Biennale 52.  Recent exhibitions at The Paul Kane gallery in Dublin I Am From Where I Am explore the ideas of homeland, while her exhibition in Rome, On Earth As It Is In Heaven, included work focusing on political and environmental problems and was accompanied by a catalogue with an introduction by Achille Bonito Oliva.

Rogers divides her time between Rome, New York, and Dublin.