ROGER CHURLEY
ART GALLERY
This is not a commercial site, but a gallery of 45+ years of image-making.
If you are interested in acquiring an image, contact me at the address below.
ABOUT
rchurley@att.net * text: 619-850-2313
Resume overview:
MFA UCSD 1982 Photograpy, Film, Drawing, Painting
Studio Assistant for Harold Cohen, Manny Farber and Patricia Patterson
Gallery Assistant/Installer at Southwestern College in Chula Vista CA 10 years
Taught Photography and Intro to Art at Southwestern College in Chula Vista CA 15 years
Interim Gallery Director at Grossmont College, Grossmont, CA 2 years
Taught Photograpy, Drama, and the AP Art History survey at Bonita Vista HS, Chula Vista CA 18 years
Lived in Italy for 9 years, 2016- 2025; now resident in Yakima WA
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The digital photos below are from monthly Arezzo Antiques Fair events in 2024. The images are printed on 17″x22″ Rives Infinity 90# paper and matted to c. 20″x24″ (50cm x 60cm) The images of tableware and dishes are pretty but the best works are of seeming random composition of unrelated items. Any meaning emerges from the accidental connections within the frame.
The digital photos below were made in various Museums in London, Italy, Germany, Paris and the US. They are printed on 10″x13″ Hahnemuhle Photo Luster paper and matted to 12″x16″. The subject is the visual, conceptual or physical interaction of figure to artwork or figure to figure through pose, gesture, expression; shape or color.
These prints below of digital drawings are based on photographs of objects modified in Photoshop. The images are printed on 17″x22″ Rives Infinity 90# paper.
Pencil and colored pencil drawings below were made on a printed, prepared paper, 16″x20″. The compositions were determined by the museums’ positions of objects in various museum displays.
These drawings below, were made by darkening the grid lines with fine point markers, blacking out elevation numbers and taping over text with black paper tape to createa new composition from the previous image. These and the “Drawings on Prepared Paper”, above, and including the “Compositions in Stripes” and the “Digital Drawings on Black” below, are about Drawing as Invented Strategies to make drawings, rather than Drawing as drawing some thing.
The following details of building fronts from in Italy (Rome, Castiglion Fiorntino, Modenà, Cremona, Montovà, Torino) and France (Beauvais) are printed on 11″x16″ Hahnemuhle Photo Luster paper and matted to c. 16″x20″ (40cm x 50cm)
The digital photographs below of entryways to various buildings in Italy and France are printed on 10″x13″ Rives Infinity paper 90# and matted to c.12″x16″ (30cm x 40cm).
The photos below are prints from Kodak Tri-X negatives.
The prints below were made from from Tri-X negatives.
The prints below were made from from Tri-X negatives.
The digital photos below – printed on 11″x16″ Hahnemuhle Photo Luster paper and matted to c. 12″x16″ (40cm x 50cm) – of Roman portrait sculpture read to me like portraits of damaged faces, rather than damaged objects, damaged sculpted portraits .
The digital photos below are portrait sculptures from the 16th to 18th Centuries, printed on 11″x16″ Hahnemuhle Photo Luster paper and matted to c. 16″x20″ (30cm x 40cm)
Below are digital photos of cropped views of marble sculpture, (Roman and later) printed on 11″x16″ Hahnemuhle Photo Luster paper and matted to c. 16″x20″ (40cm x 50 cm) or printed on Rives Infinity 17″x22″ paper 90# and matted to c. 20″x24″ (50cm x 60cm).
Marble and Bronze figures below are digital images made primarily in Rome and Munich; printed on 11″x16″ Hahnemuhle Photo Luster paper and matted to c. 16″x20″ (40cm x 50 cm) or printed on Rives Infinity 17″x22″ paper 90# and matted to c. 20″x24″ (50cm x 60cm).
The Digital photos below are printed on Rives Infinity 8″ x 11″ paper, 90# and matted to c. 12″x 16″ (30cm x 60cm)
These digital photos below are sculptural groups and single statues seen in the museum setting, from various museums in Italy are printed on 11″x16″ Hahnemuhle Photo Luster paper and matted to c. 16″x20″ (40cm x 50 cm)
The digital photos below are of various museum interiors, printed on 11″x16″ Hahnemuhle Photo Luster paper and matted to c. 16″x20″ (40cm x 50 cm)
The digital photos below are of French Gothic Cathedral interior spaces, printed on 11″x16″ Hahnemuhle Photo Luster paper and matted to c. 16″x20″ (40cm x 50 cm)
B/W prints below were made from from Tri-X negatives.
B/W prints below were made from from Tri-X negatives and color negative.
B/W prints below were made from from Tri-X negatives.
The watercors of museum displays are from Archaeology/Natural History Museums in Florence, Faenza, Turin, Perugia, Cortona, Amiens, Vienna; the others from 1980s. Most were done on large BFK Rives heavy papers.
The drawings, diptychs, and triptychs below were made from photos at various museums in Italy and France, done on large BFK Rives heavy papers of various sizes, with pencil, colored pencil and crayons
The compostions below are printed on 90# Rives Infinity paper, 13″x18″ and matted to c. 16″x20″ (50cm x 60cm).
These linear digital compositions, drawn form magizine images, and modified, are not yet printed and are of varying size.
The prints below are computer manipulate photos of striped and and printed clothing. They are printed on 90# Rives Infinity 17″ x 22″ paper, or as diptychs on 2 sheets, joined.
The images below are extended horizontal prints ofcomputer manipulate photos of striped and and printed clothing. They are printed on 90# Rives Infinity 17″ x44″ paper (two sheets of 17″x22″, joined).
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