Guadalupe Street Feature
April 11 – 25, 2025 — Santa Fe
Born in Czechoslovakia and raised across three continents, Rogers brings a powerful blend of resilience, naturalism, and innovation to the contemporary art world. Known for her masterful use of raw, wild clay as both pigment and narrative, Rogers’s work is a tactile homage to the landscapes and life paths that have shaped her.
From escaping communist Eastern Europe as a child to navigating new worlds in Canada and the American South, Eunika's journey is as layered and grounded as the very earth she paints with. After earning a Master’s degree in ceramics and engaging in large-scale clay installations, she discovered an unexpected gift: her studio clothes, stained with local clay, refused to wash clean. That revelation sparked her now-signature technique—painting directly with hand-harvested clay from landscapes she explores.
“Every color is tied to a place, to a memory,” says Rogers. “I’m not just painting an image—I’m building it out of the land itself.”
Among her most celebrated series are the “Aspen Cathedrals”—reverent tributes to the high-altitude groves of the San Juan Mountains. These monumental stands of white-barked trees, which Rogers often hikes and photographs herself, become vessels for awe and introspection in her work. Using locally harvested Colorado clay, she captures the gentle shimmer of quaking leaves, the rhythm of vertical trunks, and the quiet majesty of these natural sanctuaries.
“My first time standing in an aspen grove, I felt like I had entered a holy place,” Rogers reflects. “They are living cathedrals—light moves differently there, time slows down.”
Each piece in this series is more than a landscape—it is a spiritual map of stillness and transformation, created entirely with pigments from the very earth beneath those trees.
Rogers’s creative process begins with clay digs across regions like Mississippi and Colorado, where she collects natural materials rich in pigment and personal significance. The resulting works—textured, organic, and deeply emotive—evoke the feeling of belonging, of listening to the land. Each painting becomes a conversation between past and present, migration and memory, terrain and transformation.
Blue Rain Gallery is honored to represent Rogers’s extraordinary body of work and to share her story with new audiences in the Southwest and beyond.
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Blue Rain Gallery Podcast
Eunika Rogers, Episode 52
In this episode of the Blue Rain Gallery Podcast, host Leroy Garcia sits down with Eunika Rogers to explore the deeply personal and earth-centered process behind her work. Learn about how she gathers pigments from the land itself—clay, soil, and minerals—and how her journey from Czechoslovakia to the American South informs her artistic voice.
