Press Release - Dreamland by Shannon Rogers
Shannon Rogers - Window Hills
Oil on canvas. 16 x 22 inches. 2025.
pt.2:
Dreamlands
a solo exhibition by
Shannon Rogers
Opening Reception
July 26th at 6pm
On view until
September 6, 2025
pt.2 Gallery
1523b Webster St.
Oakland, CA 94612
pt.2 Gallery is thrilled to present Dreamlands, the latest body of work by Shannon Rogers in his second solo exhibition with the gallery. Rogers continues his deep exploration of geometric abstraction, creating paintings that begin as non-objective constructions, and evolve into dynamic landscapes.
In these new paintings an increasingly concrete landscape is distorted by contradiction, encouraging the viewer to explore and re-orient themselves in a projected reality on the surface of the image. Starting as abstract drawings with no explicit image in mind, Rogers’ imagines a reading of space within the given image, assigns directionality for the light source, utilizes a low horizon line and a well-defined tonal hierarchy to simulate a grand scale. The landscape references Rogers’ foundation as a representational painter, and serves as a democratic entry point for viewers.
Shannon Rogers - Ten Suns
Watercolor on paper. 22 x 28 inches framed. 2025.
The new work in Dreamlands continues to build on an abstract structure while employing a color scheme that moves the viewer's interpretation of the image closer to traditional landscape. In these small canvases and framed works on paper, horizon lines break and shift, pulling the space into tension. The sense of light and time of day vary, and the transparent character of the compositions keep the paintings untethered from a literal depiction of nature.
About the Artist:
Shannon Rogers (b. 1984, Little Rock, AR) is an Oakland-based painter and sculptor. He holds an MFA from the New York Studio School and a BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Rogers’ work has been featured in solo exhibitions, including Time Machines at Part 2 Gallery (2024), Superpositions at Book and Job Gallery (2023) and Lexicon at Hang Art (2019) in San Francisco.