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Bill rodgers
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Calgary-based painter Bill Rodgers provides a new body of work, which continues his exploration of Canadian social history, and painting as a critical discipline. Taking the familiar Hudson's Bay trading blanket as a formal and conceptual starting point, Rodgers acknowledges the history and role of this "cloth-of-empire" in relation to Canada's 18th century colonial landscape. These works, as Rodgers suggests, are not intended to replicate a blanket in specific terms, but rather provide painted models that in turn prompt a shift in the way a familiar and iconic form is re -pictured. Bill Rodgers is one of Calgary's longstanding contributors to the regional and national community. His work has received recognition from Canada Council on six occasions, and is collected nationally by the private, public, and institutional sector. Rodgers is currently a member of faculty at the Alberta College of Art and Design, where he continues a teaching career that spans nearly three decades. |
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