Rogan Gregory

Gregory began his career in the fashion industry. In 2001, he designed his first eponymous clothing line and later became a leading voice in sustainable fashion. His early Manhattan atelier featured monumental wood benches, tables, and chairs that he made himself. The space reflected Gregory’s incredible ability as a craftsman and his attention to the ways that objects are experienced in space and in dialogue as a cohesive whole—sensibilities that he has carried forward in his career. Beginning at a very early age Rogan spent any spare time using his hands in the studio creating sculpture. Time spent in the studio making art began to take up all of his time and eventually eclipsed his fashion career. Gregory began making intimate and large-scale sculpture. Through this 3-dimensional expression, Gregory was able to articulate his true vision. “I produce works that encourage sensory and emotional engagement with the evolutionary processes deeply embedded in our consciousness.”

Gregory meditates on line and proportion to achieve incongruous balance and asymmetrical harmony; ultimate truths in nature. He works in a wide range of time-honored materials such as stone, bronze and wood, ceramic and most recently glass. This process is realized in his new Zooid Light Sculpture series he sculpturally articulates in glass. Rogan’s interpretation of glass as an art making material is completely unique. He focuses on the surface texture and the opacity, generating surfaces that defy categorization.

He creates functional objects that take on an aura of their own. The artist’s work defies the boundaries between art, design, and sculpture. Altogether, Gregory shows a unique mythos that is elegantly executed through minimal forms and distinct surfaces and materials, seamlessly translated into sculptural and functional artworks.

“We have become insulated from our evolutionary past and from each other...as so many aspects of our daily experiences are mediated through flat screens. My work reintroduces asymmetrical amorphous forms, textures and colors into our uniform, rectilinear environments. In doing so, I hope to evoke joy, and emotion more broadly, to encourage new tactile connections to, and awareness of, our biosphere. It is critical to our existence, to our health, and to our conversations about sustaining life...”

Rogan Gregory has been featured in prominent media outlets including The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Architectural Digest, Elle Décor, Wallpaper, Surface Magazine, and more. Gregory’s work has been exhibited in galleries across the country, and in notable institutions such as the Shelburne Museum, Shelburne, VT. Gregory is currently based in Santa Monica.