March
02, 2009 ROGER SELDEN | Inaugural Exhibition | Paintings | 03/02 - 04/02/09
Michael H. Lord is pleased to announce a show of new works by Milan artist Roger Selden. The exhibition will be open to the public on Friday, March 6, with a reception for the artist to follow on Saturday, March 7 from 6-9 PM at the new Michael H. Lord Gallery on North Palm Canyon at Tachevah. Michael Lord first exhibited Roger Selden paintings in his gallery in Milwaukee in 2000.
An acrylics painter with beginnings in American Pop Contemporary, still evident in today’s bold color palette and sometimes orderly patterns, Selden’s transition in recent years to modern expressionism is a reflection of changes in
personal dialogue and inquiry which have their roots in the classic spiritual representation of impressionism and European painting. “Selden conceives pictorial space as space that counts, that demands to be occupied in a de?nite
and signifcant way, a place thick with ‘risky’ emotive events,” says Enzo Di Martino, renowned Italian Curator and Art Critic.
Born in New York in 1945, Selden studied at the Brooklyn Museum from 1957 to 1962 and attended the Tyler School of Fine Arts in Philadelphia where he received his BFA in 1966. In the summer of 1964 he studied painting and graphics in Paris. In 1968 he obtained his MFA at the Tyler School of Fine Arts in Rome. Since 1975, Roger Selden has maintained his studio in Milan.
Selden’s exhibition history includes prestigious galleries and art fairs around the world including Art Basel, Art Cologne, and FIAC in Paris.
Roger Selden has also undertaken many different project; among them, the continuous design collaboration with Sieger-Design, Ritzenhoff, in Germany, and Ducati in Bologna, Italy. In 1997 he was appointed to design the windows of the newly restored Synagogue of Milan.
