Roger Chavez places his practice as a form of philosophical investigation by beginning with his motif as a point of departure. His subject becomes a scrutiny of its shadows, shapes, and the space it occupies. Focusing on his motif over the years, while his subject arrangement rarely changes, 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 give 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, The Ballinglen Museum of Arts, Ireland, and Cacciola Gallery, New York. The Franz and Virginia Bader Foundation, the Ballinglen Arts Foundation, The Pollock Krasner Foundation, The Vermont Studio Center, and the Serge Sacknoff Prize have supported his projects and research. Chavez earned his MFA from American University in Washington, D.C., and a certificate in painting from the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts.
