<span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:130%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;">Brett Cody Rogers'</span></span> installation at <span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">ALAC</span></span><br /><br />"a booth which draws inspiration from <span style="font-size:100%;">the entryway to Le Corbusier’s <em>Maison Blanche</em></span>, Villa Jeanneret-Perret in Switzerland – <span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(51, 0, 0);font-size:130%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;">in which dramatic shadows are cast against a jute backdrop.</span></span>"<br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7169/6743397859_489c700bba_b.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7169/6743397859_489c700bba_b.jpg" style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 854px; height: 803px;" /></a><br /><br /><a href="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7014/6743390719_df6b25d1bd_b.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7014/6743390719_df6b25d1bd_b.jpg" style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 737px; height: 1024px;" /></a><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://www.brettcodyrogers.com/" style="color: rgb(51, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size:180%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Brett Cody Rogers'</span></span></a> <span style="font-style: italic;">confident abstractions on canvas/ paper have the ability to quietly control the air in a room with their intensity of shape, form, pattern, and color. The 2011 show, Painter's Forms, at the L.A. gallery </span><span style="font-size:130%;"><a href="http://pepinmoore.com/PM/BrettCodyRogers.html" style="font-weight: bold;">Pepin Moore</a></span><span style="font-style: italic;">, was one of most memorable painting shows of the year. It was in </span><a href="http://www.southwillard.com/"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">South Willard</span></span></a><a href="http://www.southwillard.com/" style="font-style: italic;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"> </span></span></a><span style="font-style: italic;">that I first saw one of Brett Cody Rogers' sculptural works installed from the ceiling. Casting shadows, slowly moving as the air in the room shifted, miniature paintings from strings.</span><span style="font-style: italic;"> To those that looked above, they were rewarded.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">This weekend at </span><a href="http://artlosangelesfair.com/"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Art Los Angeles Contemporary</span></span></a><span style="font-style: italic;">, in association with <a href="http://www.paddle8.com/" style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);">Paddle 8</a><span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"> </span>and <a href="http://www.phaidon.com/agenda/" style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);">Phaidon</a>, Brett Cody Rogers has created "a booth which draws inspiration from the entryway to Le Corbusier’s </span><a href="http://www.maisonblanche.ch/e/accueil.php"><span style="color: rgb(51, 0, 0);font-size:130%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;">Maison Blanche</span></span></a><span style="font-style: italic;">, Villa Jeanneret-Perret in Switzerland – in which dramatic shadows are cast against a jute backdrop."</span><br style="font-style: italic;"><br style="font-style: italic;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-style: italic;"><span style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);"> <span style="font-size:100%;">- David John</span></span><br /><br /></span><br /><br /></span></span><span style="font-size:130%;"></span><br /><a href="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7157/6743392075_1933f0aa25_b.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7157/6743392075_1933f0aa25_b.jpg" style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 1024px; height: 683px;" /></a><br /><a href="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7020/6743391289_24645754a0_b.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7020/6743391289_24645754a0_b.jpg" style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 914px; height: 691px;" /></a><br /><br /><br />“It gave me the opportunity to work with ideas that I’ve been researching for my painting practice. It was an interesting thing <span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(51, 0, 0);font-size:130%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;">to design the furniture and the space </span></span>within my aesthetic as a painter, <span style="font-style: italic;font-size:130%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;">but not call it an artwork</span></span>.”<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(102, 102, 102);">- Brett Cody Rogers</span><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">"</span><span style="font-style: italic;" class="citation">“…and I thought of our house, all white under the moon and I blessed Ed. that he wanted this whiteness [...] Thank you kindly for your letter that shows me how much you enjoy your home, <span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">I understand all the intimacy, the warmth, the spaciousness, the friends who visit, the objects, the music, the reproductions of the human or fantastic statues</span></span>."</span><br /><br />Albert Jeanneret, brother of Le Corbusier, letter to his parents, 19.11.1913<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7031/6743717025_3b155b0c7f_b.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7031/6743717025_3b155b0c7f_b.jpg" style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 699px; height: 467px;" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Maison Blanche</span>,<span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"> photo by Luis Gualtieri 2006, </span><a href="http://apuntesdearquitecturadigital.blogspot.com/2010/10/la-maison-blanche-origen-de-la-carrera.html" style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(102, 102, 102);">via here</a><br /><br /><br /></div><br />"that both plays on my aesthetic interests and the material forms referenced in my studio practice, as well as modernist tropes in<span style="font-style: italic;"> <span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Le Corbusier’s interiors and furniture.</span></span>”</span><br /><br /><a href="http://www.brettcodyrogers.com/"><span style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153); font-style: italic;">- Brett Cody Rogers</span></a><br /><br />"Architecture is the clever, correct and magnificent<br /><span style="font-style: italic;font-size:130%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;">expression of volumes in light</span></span><span style="font-size:130%;">. </span>"<br /><br style="font-style: italic;"><span style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153); font-style: italic;">-Le Corbusier</span><br /><br /><br /><br style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">-----------</span><br style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">

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