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Bill Rogers Biography

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Bill Rogers of Brooklyn, New York, has recently been very successful in showing his found-object construction sculptures at one-man shows at the Holzworth Gallery, New York, 1997, and at the Right Bank Gallery, Williamsburg, Brooklyn, 1999.

Rogers is inspired by castaway objects and creates from them something aesthetic, perhaps practical, more often witty. For example, his six-foot "Toothbrush," carved from a large piece of driftwood, with rusty 7" spikes for bristles, is a hearty reminder to carefully brush after every meal.

Bill Rogers' works are in many private collections.

Exhibitions Solo

1999 Right Bank Gallery, Williamsburg, Brooklyn

1997 Holzworth Gallery, East Village, New York

Group

1999 The Dorothy Rogers Collection Online

76 Varick Gallery, New York

Right Bank Gallery, Williamsburg, Brooklyn

Wichita Center for the Arts, Kansas 1998

Right Bank Gallery, Williamsburg, Brooklyn

Education

Brunswick School, Greenwich, CT, 1978

Lafayette College, BA History, 1982

Columbia University, International Affairs, MA, 1988

Cooper-Union, Continuing Education, 1996-97

Employment

Freelance Writer, Carpenter, Welder's Apprentice: 1997 to present

Farmer: Hopewell Township, NJ, 1996

Journalist: 1988 to 1996, Aviation International News, Associated Press, Bloomberg Business News