Sept. 6, 2025 — Coming today to the American University Museum is the survey exhibition, Women Artists of the DMV, which uncovers the breadth, diversity, and creative “superpowers” of female artists working today in Washington, D.C., Maryland, and Virginia.
Artist and gallery owner Alla Rogers is one of the artists included in this unprecedented initiative, which is considered “the largest curated survey of contemporary living women artists in the nation and the first survey of female visual artists working across the DMV,” according to curator Lenny Campello. Click here to find a list of all the women artists, including Alla Rogers.
Artist Statement: Alla Rogers
Mine is a very personal journey into abstraction. It is a pathway to find expression for the transcendent, sacred, and eternal.
Using symbols, color, textural media and silver and gold leaf while guided by my intuition, I attempt to express an insight, a mood, a reflection about my own awareness of existence in an eternal landscape.
Artist Alla Rogers
With color, archetypal symbols, and personal references to my own internal practice of focusing within, a conclusion or feeling concerning the sacred and eternal is explored. You might call some of my painting abstract icons. In my work, the circle often symbolizes a fixed reference point in the eternal landscape; unity, the world, oneness, centrality and it is a female symbol. Other strong symbols are triangles and various geometric forms in timeless relationship to one another as if in a cosmic minuet.
The symbolism of color is very important to my work as it is the means of conveying mood, atmospherics and energy. It is an energy that brings us all into being. I give myself permission to see up close from a jewelers perspective or telescopically at the cosmos as we know it.
As a visual communication I seek balance, harmony and an aspiration towards beauty for myself and the viewer who may not be aware of the underpinnings of my work.
About “Emerging,” the painting chosen by curator Lenny Campello for the Katzen exhibition: This is perhaps the most abstract of my paintings. It is simply meant to suggest what it says, Emerging, the birthing of something. It is earthy and brooding and struggling at times, as is life. It is constantly emerging, uninhibited, a flow to be accepted. Acrylic and textural media on canvas.
Learn more about the artist: AllaRogers.com.
Click here to learn more about the exhibition at the Katzen Center, Sept. 6-Dec. 7, 2025.