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LaRissa Rogers
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LaRissa Rogers
LaRissa Rogers (b. 1996) is an Asian/American artist based in Richmond (VA) and Los Angeles (CA). Roger’s work looks at the intersections of culture, identity, and embedded forms of colonization expressed through perception and psyche. Combining aspects of memory, history, and personal experience, she expands and complicates the capaciousness of blackness by challenging the politics of hybridity, authenticity, and visibility as an Afro-Asian woman. Often asking the question, who and what survives? She simultaneously engages violence and care as co-constructive forces that structure Black life. By using materials that reference colonial histories Rogers re-contextualizes them to grapple with the entanglements of belonging and fugitivity, beauty and horror, life and death, opacity and transparency, care and resistance.
Often using performance, sculpture, video, installation as methods of address, Rogers contends with the systems of commodification, representation, and female-identified subjectivity as shaped by the experience of diaspora. The body becomes an archive and vessel for collective memory and reimagining, while temporality provides pathways for de-colonial futures and alternative possibilities for Black and Asian people to exist.
Unfortunately, It Was Paradise
Lorena Molina,
LaRissa Rogers,
Jumana Manna
2 February-29 March, 2024
MCLA Gallery 51
Courtesy of the artists and MCLA Gallery 51.
Ballast Recent Aesthetic Practices in Response to Anti-Blackness
LaRissa Rogers
4 November, 2023-17 March, 2024
Museum of Photography, Riverside, California
Courtesy of the artist and Museum of Photography, Riverside, California. © Nikolay Maslov and Christopher Wormald.
The Mistake Room, 2023
LaRissa Rogers
Los Angeles
Textures of enfleshment (II)
LaRissa Rogers
2023, acrylic and raw brown sugar on canvas with porcelain and candied brown sugar sculpture on top, 243.8 x 121.9 cm. Courtesy of the artist and Super Dakota, Brussels.
Of eaters and the eaten, 2023
LaRissa Rogers
© Christopher Wormald.
Licked Until Your Tongue Rubbed Raw, 2022
LaRissa Rogers
© Stacey Evans. Courtesy of Second Street Gallery.
Keloid VI (sweet feminine)
LaRissa Rogers
2023, cannibalized tchotchke figurines, porcelain, glaze, 27.9 x 16.1 x 10.8 cm. Courtesy of the artist.
Untitled (self-portrait), 2023
LaRissa Rogers
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