Violent Garden is an installation of sculptures comprised of wood, nails, soil, deconstructed photographs of natural light, mirrors, urban ash, ostrich eggshells, and other natural and artificial materials. Through a mixture of elements, the installation mirrors the delicacy and prevailing determinacy of nature versus human nature. Using materials that invoke both conflict and construction, Violent Garden invites the viewer to consider notions of autonomy and evolution. The project highlights themes of individual power and the primal self. Through these sculptures, Rogers questions the dynamic between spirit, body, and matter, and examines the interplay between industrial progress and the violence of the natural world.
Fawn Rogers is a contemporary multimedia artist primarily using a conceptual approach to photography, painting, video, sculpture, and installation. She has had solo exhibitions at the Museum of Art and History (2016) and HATCh Inc. (2014), and site-specific installations on the American Eagle Building in Times Square (2014), at the World Bank in Juba (2013), at Floor 53 in Tokyo (1997), and in Koregaon Park, Puna (1993). Born in Portland, Oregon, Rogers currently lives and works in Los Angeles.
