Pamela Rogers
Texas Women's University, Denton, TX

Pamela Jeanne Rogers lives in Denton, Texas and will finish her MFA in Photography in the Summer of 1993. Her studies encompass artist's books and handmade paper, both of which are incorporated into photographic works. She combines photographs, words, and found objects in order to convey contradictions perceived between personal experience and contemporary social contexts. The imagery, objects and text represent a recontextualization of her life experiences into a visual autobiography that exists as artist's books, assemblage, and installations. Her work has been influenced dramatically by the death of her father in 1989, serious physical injuries experienced in the last five years, and her work as AIDs activist. This work focuses on "coactive dualities" inherent to her life. Some of these issues include: personal beliefs/collective consciousness; childhood memories/adult perceptions; health stereotypes/the injured body; heterosexual biases, bigotry/lesbian and gay issues, AIDs; and life/death.

Works by Rogers have been shown locally, regionally and nationally, most notably at Dishman Art Competition, Beaumont, Texas, Women by Women, Allen Street Gallery, Dallas, Texas, and Texas Artists, WORKS/San Jose, California.  Her photographs have been published in Texas Contemporary, Ashai Camera Magazine, Japan. She currently works as a photographer and graphic artist at Texas Woman's University.