Roger Herman
Roger Herman is a German artist born in 1947. He work intuitively with clay, but generally starts with wheel thrown forms that are stacked, cut, altered, and decorated. Often featuring bright underglaze colors contrasting with dark, glossy glazes, the pots range from small, handheld cup- or bowl-like pieces to massive vases, urn-like pots, and large platters. Herman also employs many drawing and painting techniques, including inlay, scraffito, wax resist, oxide wash, and combinations of underglaze and glaze. Not bound by one style, some pots are abstract color fields while others are completely covered in figurative drawing. Often fired and refired, the pots exude a considered casualness that is also open, honest, and exuberant.
Raw energy and an instinctual sensory relationship to colour and textures is immediately apparent through the bulk of his work, which spans from drawings to paintings, books to ceramics, t-shirts and woodcut prints. His wild blends of ad-hoc and quickly-dashed lines, shapes, opacities, smears layer together in awkward but satisfying compositions. Gestures are as boldly applied as covered up, allowing shapes to recede and reveal themselves simultaneously, in a true polyphony of style.
Born in Saarbruecken, Germany in 1947
Lives and works in Los Angeles
EDUCATION
1976 MFA Akademie der Kuenste, Karlsruhe, DE
Professor of Fine Arts, University of California Los Angeles
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2024
Ceramics, Ronald H. Silverman Fine Arts Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, USA
2023
KERAMIK, Nino Meir gallery, Los Angeles, CA, USA
New Paintings, South Willard, Los Angeles, CA, USA
2021
Sorry We're Closed , Brussels, BE
Galeria Mascota, Mexico City, MX
Keramik, Galerie Lefebvre et fils, Paris, FR
Blossom Market LA, Los Angeles, CA, USA
"Tables and Ocean", Los Angeles, CA, USA
2020
" My FRENCH PAINTINGS", Praz Delavallade, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Carpenters workshop gallery, New York, NY, USA
2019
Blumen, Carpenters workshop Gallery, London, UK
A Collection of Unique Ceramics and Paintings, Carpenters Workshop Gallery, London, UK
2018
Thomas Hunter Space, Hunter College, New York, NY, USA
Richard Telles Fine Art, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Jack Hanley Gallery, New York, NY, USA
2017
Feuer/Mesler Gallery New York, NY, USA
Galerie Lefebvre et Fils, Paris, FR
2016
Marc Jancou, Gstaad, CH
Galerie Lefebvre et Fils, Paris, FR
Richard Telles, Fine Arts, Los Angeles, CA, USA
2015
Carpenters Workshop, CERAMICS, London, UK
Eaton Fine Art, INC.
"Paintings and Woodcuts from the 80's" West Palm Beach, FL, USA
2014
ACME Gallery, Los Angeles,CA. South Willard, Los Angeles ,CA, USA
2012
Richard Telles, Fine Art, Los Angeles, CA, USA
2010
George Lawson Gallery, San Francisco, CA, USA
2009
Pacific Design Center, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Jancar Gallery, Paintings of the 80's, Los Angeles, CA, USA
HEATH Ceramics Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, USA
RMCAD Philip J. Steele Gallery, Denver, Colorado, NV, USA
2008
Galerie Gordon, Pym and Fils, Paris, FR
2006
INMO Gallery, Los Angeles Mitsubishi Gallery, Tokyo, JP
2005
Guggenheim Gallery at Chapman University, Orange
Santa Monica Museum, Project room, Santa Monica
Galerie Gordon Pym & Fils, Paris, France
2004
Atelier Richard Tullis, Santa Barbara
Galerie Schmidt/ Goldener Engel, Hall/Innsbruck, Austria
2003 Black Dragon Society, Los Angeles
2002 Galerie Peter Reich, Vienna, Austria
2001 Susanne Vielmetter Projects, Los Angeles Black Dragon Society LA
2000 Susanne Vielmetter Projects, Los Angeles
1999 Ursula Krinzinger Galerie, Vienna, Austria
1998 Ace Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles
1997 Ace Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles
1996 Lawing Gallery, Houston, Texas
Ace Contemporary Exhibitions, New York
1995 Ace Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles
1994 Ace Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles
1992 Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles
1990 Galerie Froment Putman, Paris, France
Ace Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles
1988 Ace Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles Fuller Gross Gallery,SF
1987 Ace Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles
1986 Galerie Krinzinger, Innsbruck, Austria
Reed College, Portland, Oregon
Arte Contemporanea, Mexico City, Mexico
Nave Museum, Victoria, Texas
1986 Larry Gagosian Gallery, Los Angeles
1985 University of California, Riverside
1985 Washington University, Bellingham, Washington Mo David Gallery, New York
Fuller Goldeen Gallery, San Francisco
Larry Gagosian Gallery, Los Angeles
1984 Hal Bromm Gallery, New York Roger Ramsey Gallery, Chicago
Patty Aande Gallery, San Diego
Eaton-Shoen Gallery, San Francisco Ulrike Kantor Gallery, Los Angeles
1983 Eaton-Shoen Gallery, San Francisco
Ulrike Kantor Gallery, Los Angeles
La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art, La Jolla University of Redlands, Redlands, California
1982 Akademie Der Kunst, Karlsruhe, Germany Ulrike Kantor Gallery, LA
1981 San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco Ulrike Kantor Gallery, LA
1980 Jetwave Inc., San Francisco
1979 Dana Reich Gallery, San Francisco
1977 Goethe Institute, San Francisco
1973 Galerie Am Neumarkt, Saarbruecken, Germany
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024
Ceramics, Ronald H. Silverman Fine Arts Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, USA
2023
"South Willard", Gordon Robichaux, New York, NY, USA
Tony Marsh : Fever Dream Duets, Arbertz Benda, Los Angeles, CA, USA
"New Ground", Contemporary Etchings, Jacob Samuel Editions, MOMA, New York, NY, USA
"Colorfield", Long Beach Art Museum, Long Beach, CA, USA
Galerie Italienne, Paris, FR
"Obrigado terra", Palacio Cardaval, Evora, PT
Pollen on a West Wind, Curated by Tony Marsh, Jason Jacques Gallery, New York, NY, USA
2022
Spring 2022, SIDE GALLERY, Casavelles, Cataluna, ES
Maestri, De Cotis Gallery with Wendell Castle, Milan, IT
Summertime Rolls, La Loma Projects, Los Angeles, CA, USA
"Sized", Vessels, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Alain Biltereyst, Roger Herman and Margaret Lee, Jack Hanley Gallery, New York, NY, USA
2021
Art and Hope, USC Fischer Museum, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
CWG @ Patricia Low Gallery, Gstaad, CH
"Dog Days", The Pit, Palm Springs, CA, USA
"Ceramics Now", Galerie Italienne, Paris, FR
Jack Hanley Gallery, East Hampton, NY, USA
"Via Cafe", Tiff Sifrids Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
"Material Space", CWG and Lehman Maupin, Aspen, CO, USA
"OUt East", Christies and CWG Southhampton, NY, USA
"Return ofthe Dragons", Chinatown, Los Angeles, CA USA
"Portraits", OMA, Oceanside, CA, USA
"Les Flammes – L'Âge de la céramique", Musée d'Art Moderne de Paris, Paris, FR
2020
"soft vibrations" with Jim Iserman and Heather Cook, Praz Delavallade, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Pacific Coast Ceramics, Galeria Mascota, Aspen, CO, USA
"sample platter'' Guggenheim Gallery at Chapman Gallery, Orange, CA, USA
"Death Cult" Torrance Art Museum, Torrance, CA, USA
2019
"Dark Fantasy",UTA artist space, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Carpenters Workshop Gallery, San Francisco, CA, USA
Museo National de la Estampa, Mexico City, MX
"Pop up Anthology",Vincenzo de Cotis Gallery, Milan, IT
2018
Dos Collectivos, Instituto de Artes Gricas de Oaxaca, Mexico
"CLAYBORN", Lefebvre et Fils, Paris, France
"LA Friends", Rental Gallery, East Hampton
"Summer roundup", Richard Telles Fine Art, Los Angeles
2017
Bound by paper "Books" LMAC gallery, NY.NY
"Amidst" 3 Person Show , China Art Objects Gallery, LA. CA.
" Hotel Kalifornia", Galerie Louis Lefebvre, Paris, France
2016
"Between something and nothing", Paintings, Richard Telles Fine Art, Los Angeles
"Figure as Form" curated by Katie Bode, LTD, Los Angeles
"Bottom Floor", Charlie James Gallery, Los Angeles,Ca.
"Contemporary Woodcuts", University Art Gallery, Sonoma State, CA.
2015
"Museum of Ceramic Art" at Monte Vista Projects, Los Angeles, Ca.
James Harris Gallery, Seattle, Washington
ESMOA, ARTLAB, El Segundo, Los Angeles, Ca.
"Vessels", Blackston Gallery, New York, NY.
"WEST COAST", Lefebvre et Fils, Paris, France
"Works on Paper", ACME Gallery, Los Angeles, Ca.
"And there is an end", Roberts and Tilton Gallery, Culver City, CA.
"Gesture", ARENA Gallery, Santa Monica, CA.
2014
"Top Coat",The PIT, Glendale , CA
"The CAT Show, 356 Mission Street, Los Angeles, CA
"Vienna for Art's sake", Winter Palace, Belvedere, Vienna, Austria
"ACME 20 Years" Acme Gallery, Los Angeles
"Archive Austria," curated by Peter Noefer, Trienale de Milano, Italy
"George Nakashima in conversation," UNTITLED GALLERY, New York, New York
"Looks on Paper," Ditch Projects, Springfield, Oregon
"Art Los Angeles, Contemporary," Richard Telles Fine Art, Los Angeles, CA.
"Frieze Art Fair," Richard Telles Fine Art, New York New York
2013
"Object Salon,"Roberts & Tilton, Los Angeles
"Paper,"The Prospectus, Pacific Design Center, Los Angeles
"Aspects of Drawing," Orange Coast Colleg, Costa Mesa
"MAS ATTACK," LA MART, Los Angeles
"Wir Drei," Guggenheim Gallery, Chapman University, Orange
2012
"Venice Beach Biennial,"Venice, California
"Curatorial Exchange," Irvine Arts center, Irvine, California
"Mr Natural," Gallery KM, Santa Monica, California
"Sexy Boyfriend," JB Jurve, Los Angeles
"Nice to meet me," Hayama Projects, Yokohama, Japan
"The Nudes Painting Show,"3704 Figueroa, Los Angeles
"The Cactus Painting Show," 3704 Figueroa, Los Angeles
"Landscape and Portraiture," Irvine Art Center, Irvine, California
"the Holodek,"Post, Los Angeles, California
"Selected works on paper," George Lawson Gallery, Los Angeles, California
"Chasm of the Supernova,"Center for the Arts, Eagle Rock, Los Angeles
2011
"Under the Big Black Sun," Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, California
RCM Galerie, Paris, France
"Works on Paper," ACME, Los Angeles, California
"Role Reversa," Mount St. Mary's College, Los Angeles, California
"Los Angeles Museum of Ceramic Art," ACME, Los Angeles, California
2010
"KERAMIKS," Pacific Design Center, Los Angeles, California
2009
"Hang the Curator," Museum of Contemporary Art, Detroit, Michigan
"International Large Scale Print Show",Orange Coast College, Costa Mesa, California
"Lovable Like Orphaned Kitties And Bastard Children," Green Gallery, Milwaukee Exposition en el Instituto des Artes Graficas de Oaxaca, Oaxaca, Mexico
2008
LA Weekly Annual Biennial, Tack 16, Santa Monica, California
RAID Projects, Los Angeles, California
Pruess press, Rental Gallery, New York, New York
Karyn Lovegrove Gallery, Los Angeles, California
2007
"Grand Gesture," University Art Museum, CSULB, Long Beach, California "Material Affinities," USC Fisher Gallery, Los Angeles, California
"Soft Core," Kim Light Gallery, Los Angeles, California
"American Symposium," Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, California
2006
INMO Gallery, Los Angeles, California
Daniel Hug Gallery, Los Angeles, California
2005
Frank Pictures, Santa Monica
Flux Gallery, Los Angeles, California
2004
"Nature Study »,Cal State Bakersfield University Art Museum, UCSB, Santa Barbara, California
Galerie im Museum Ludwig, Saarlouis, Germany
2003
Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento Butler Institute of American Art, Youongstown, Ohio Museum of Southern Texas,
Corpus Christi, Texas
Dianne pruess Gallery, Los Angeles Drunken Masters, Gallery C, Hermosa Beach, California
2002
Drawings, Low Gallery, Los Angeles, California
Albertina, Vienna, Austria
Works On Paper Gallery, Los Angeles, California
Guggenheim Gallery at Chapman University, Orange, California
Atelier Richard Tullis, Santa Barbara, California
Hayworth Gallery, Los Angeles, California
Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, California
Ursula Krinzinger Galerie, Vienna, Austria
2001
Galerie im Museum Ludwig, Saarlouis, Germany
Cirrus Gallery, Los Angeles, California?Galerie Peter Reich, Vienna, Austria
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, Miauhaus Studio, Los Angeles, California
Black Dragon Society, Los Angeles, California
Continuous Surface, University Art Museum, Long Beach, California
CAA Foundation, Beverly Hills, California
The Matrix and the Monoprint, Santa Barbara Arts Commission, California
Miller-Durazo Gallery, Los Angeles, California
1998
Ace Contemporary Exhibitions Los Angeles, California
BIG 2, Bank of America Collection, Plaza Gallery, San Francisco
1997
Fresh Ink, Austin Museum of Art, Austin, Texas
Eaton Fine Art Inc., West Palm Beach, Florida
1996 Wrestling with the Sublime, California State University of Fullerton, California
1995 Abstraction from Two Coasts, Lawing Gallery, Houston, Texas
1993 Physical Abstraction, Blum Helman Gallery, New York
1991
Individual Realities, Saison Museum of Art, Tokyo, Japan
Individual Realities, Tsukashin Hall, Osaka, Japan, Curated by California-International Arts Foundation
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
The Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California
The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, California
The Orange County Museum of Modern Art, Newport Beach, California
The Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota
The Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California
The Achenbach Foundation, San Francisco, California
The Denver Art Museum, Denver, Colorado
The Museo del Arte Contemporanea, Mexico City, Mexico
The Robert Rifkind Collection
The Gordon Hampton Collection
The Eli Broad Collection
The Dallas Price Collection
The Gruenewald Center at the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, California
The Achenbach Foundation, San Francisco, California
The Albertina, Vienna, Austria
The Museum Of Modern Art, New York
The Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA, USA
AWARDS
DAAD Grant from Germany
National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship Grants
New Talent Award, Los Angeles County Museum of Art