JOHN R.G. ROTH: MODELED EXPERIENCE

I look at my work as a distillate of experience. Life events, travel, relationships, politics and dreams all condense to varying degrees into my sculpture. I synthesize, mix and mash up this experience together with my love of object making to fabricate the work.  Much of my work is executed in a scale model format that stems from a boyhood interest in model railroads, cars, ships and planes. Many of these pieces reflect an interest in hybridization and polymorphism.  Some of these hybrids are oneiric or the product of meditation and daydreaming. With my work I hope to engage, amuse and provoke the viewer by setting up sites for wonder and rumination.

John R.G. Roth, Associate Professor of Art, Old Dominion University

Location:

LINDA MATNEY GALLERY/ JOHN LEE MATNEY, LTD

5435 Richmond Road, Suite A
Williamsburg, Virginia
23188         
(757) 675-6627 

Pictured: Detail of Cenotaph For The Blithely Alacritous, Diorama

The Enabled Romantic Affliction.  48 x 26 x 9” wall hung diorama Cherry, glass, plaster, scenery materials, photograph, $6000.00

Faceted Conveyance. Rigid foam, resin, sheet metal, machined aluminum, 14 x 22 x 12” $3000.00

Faceted Conveyance (reverse side)

Cenotaph For the Blithely Alacritous 32 x 23 x 13” deep. wall hung diorama Model scenery, epoxy clay, digital image, light, cherry, $4500.00

Anthropocene Reliquary.  32 x 20 x 8” wall hung diorama, seal femur, crushed coal, ebonized ash, photograph, $5000.00

Detail

Ambivalent Conveyance, rigid foam, resin, sheet metal, machined aluminum, 10″ x 48″ x 8”, $3000.00

Land, Water, Air, oil paint and model plane, 32 x 23 x 13”, $3000.00

Monocular Visionary, styrofoam, model tank, scenery materials, acrylic paint, turned brass, 7″H x 40″W x 24,  $2500.00

Mirth Converted from Flotsam to Jetsam, cherry, plexiglas, fiberfill, LEDs, 43″H x 30″W x 20″D, $4000.00

Terminal Island Exile, Mixed Materials, 9 x 47 x 24″,  $4000.00

Red Sky at Morn… 44 x 34 x 9” deep 3-D printed central wave form with Occulus Medium software and headset. Digital image, Plexiglas, cherry, $5000.00

CORPULENT CONVEYANCE, styrofoam, resin sheet metal machined aluminum, 24″H x 9″W x 12″D,  $2500.00

John R.G. Roth

About Lee Matney

A native of Richmond VA, has over 25 years of experience in the art world in Virginia, Georgia, Texas and elsewhere. His gallery specializes in developing thematic group shows and collaborative art projects with international and American artists at galleries and museums nationally and regionally. The gallery also offers consulting for investment art and museum collections. Linda Matney Gallery provides an excellent resource for contemporary art lovers everywhere. Specialties: Southern art, Art Rosenbaum, contemporary photography, European contemporary art, and art associated with Virginia colleges.

As a photographer, Lee Matney is known for images of the art scene in Athens GA. His photographs appear in various publications including Cool Town:How Athens Georgia Launched Alternative Music and Changed American Culture by Grace Elizabeth Hale, UNC Press, 2020. His work is in the University of Georgia Special Collections Library, Athens GA