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Sometimes I miss the immediacy of pencil on paper. Every since I hung my exhibition- Project Fusion I have been making simple drawings-...

Roger Allan Cleaves
Oct 7, 20221 min read
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Luncheon For The People
I arranged this painting using compositional devices borrowed from Edouard Manet’s Luncheon on the Grass. I have always enjoyed the...

Roger Allan Cleaves
Sep 26, 20222 min read
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Project Fusion: University of Mississippi 130 Gallery (Oxford)
My solo exhibition Project Fusion is now open to the public. The exhibition will be on view until October 14th 2022. The reception will...

Roger Allan Cleaves
Sep 26, 20221 min read
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1-800-FMN-LAND
This is an animated short I made over the weekend. I've been getting all my main character rigs created and it's really been pushing the...

Roger Allan Cleaves
Apr 19, 20211 min read
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Walk Cycling
I'm making some animation cycles for some future NFTs. It's really fun creating characters. Art has always been character based for me. I...

Roger Allan Cleaves
Apr 9, 20211 min read
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NFT Takeover
This week I started my adventure with NFTs (Non Fungible Tokens). What are NFT’s? From my novice level understanding it’s like Crypto...

Roger Allan Cleaves
Apr 8, 20212 min read
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Copy of Story Scraps
I've been spending most of my free time writing and building in Maya. I have several sketchbooks going; some are based on characters and...

Roger Allan Cleaves
Aug 2, 20191 min read
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Monsters and Reveries opens May 11th.
#art #artexhibitions #contemporaryart #rogerallancleaves #philadelphia #painting #sculpture #mikerea #bertrandproductions

Roger Allan Cleaves
May 2, 20191 min read
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Mudbox Sculpts
I've been relearning what I understood about Maya and learning what I can on mudbox. #art #digital #digitalart #swan

Roger Allan Cleaves
May 2, 20191 min read
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Concentration
The ability to think about your work and only your work is the greatest skill you can hone in the studio. A practice should be focused....

Roger Allan Cleaves
Dec 17, 20181 min read
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Cool People Along the Way
I have met some really cool artist in the past couple of months- a mixture of old friends and some brand new faces, all full of positive...

Roger Allan Cleaves
Nov 14, 20181 min read
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Day to Day
Some days you have to paint all day just to make two good decisions. Some days you think all day about the two good decisions you are...

Roger Allan Cleaves
Oct 24, 20181 min read
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Opening:Oct 5th-Christian Brothers University
#art #artexhibition #rogerallancleaves #groundbreaking #theforgetmenots #emergingartist #abstractart #memphisart #artmemphis #Painting...

Roger Allan Cleaves
Sep 14, 20181 min read
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Cut and Paste
It's been a long day of working outside in the heat to resolve the sculptures for my upcoming show. Making sculptures always gives me ...

Roger Allan Cleaves
Aug 18, 20182 min read
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Pattern Making
My studio practice has been leading my down the path of patterning and texture. I spend quite a bit of time researching Egyptian art and...

Roger Allan Cleaves
Aug 17, 20181 min read
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Drawing Goals
It has been a long time since I set out to make a drawing that was concrete in it's possibilities. Most of my drawings start abstractly...

Roger Allan Cleaves
Jul 31, 20181 min read
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Featured in ArtAscent
I was recently featured in ArtAscent. I answered a call to artist to respond to the idea of youth. I'm really pleased with the write up...

Roger Allan Cleaves
Jul 20, 20181 min read
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Monsters Marks
If you have not had a chance to check out Monsters Marks at AMUM the University of Memphis museum, please stop by and take a look. Below...

Roger Allan Cleaves
Apr 18, 20181 min read
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ArtMaze Mag Spring 2018
You can check out my work in the spring issue of ArtMaze Mag. I was selected for inclusion by, art critic and editor of Hyperallergic...

Roger Allan Cleaves
Mar 21, 20181 min read
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Monsters Marks
I have some work in Monsters Marks. I hope you can check it out. I'm also in the a group exhibition titled A World Away in Jackson,...

Roger Allan Cleaves
Mar 14, 20181 min read
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