Website: http://www.rodgerroundy.com

Commentary:

I found Rodgy Roundy through an RSS subscription to Artistaday.com.  Artistaday is a well designed user interactive forum/blogging site which has the aim of highlighting one artist a day.  The good folks there have been doing this for years, and have built up an extensive collection of searchable artist.  The format is such that an artist is highlighted using his/her bio alongside a picture of their work.  Artistday.com focuses on sculpture artist, photography artist and painters.  In short, every medium is accepted so long as the end result of the artistic process is a tangible object or image.

I am primarily interested in the painters and sculptors presented on the site.  Rodgy Roundy in particular arrested my scrolling hand as my RSS feeds rolled down the page.  His work has been to date a gleeful fusion of “Where’s Waldo and M.C. Escher”.  The focus of many of Rodgy Roundy’s work remains the interaction between many seemingly identical characters.  These figures interact with one another in such activities as swimming through a sea of letters, horse back riding, archery, building strange structural monoliths.  The figures are often female, often of a generic hair color (blonde, brown or red) and often wearing catholic school girl outfits. Color is not the primary focus of the works. In later works color was an accent to the composition. In present day it has been eliminated entirely from the palette. Earlier works from ten years previous are less complex in subject material and composition compared to those being produced today.  The viewer can readily see the progressive style that Rodge Roundy has cultivated over the years.