StandardVision Artist Showcase: Baroque-Like Underwater Photography by Christy Lee Rogers

StandardVision continues its curated site-specific art program on the curved exterior media display at the bustling 3rd Street Crossing with a month-long showcase of fine art photographer Christy Lee Rogers' ethereal series The Human Collection on view through June 30th.

Drama, movement and light come to life in swirls of color, set against the darkness of night in Rogers' depiction of the strength and opposing vulnerability of humanity. Rogers sees her work as a passageway into the soul and something more profound within ourselves, reminding us of our own vulnerabilities within a landscape of hope and magic. In her own unique way, Rogers urges us to look beyond the finite boundaries of what's in front of us, and to see between the spaces into a new reality.

All of Christy Lee Rogers' works are photographed in water, using the refraction of light to create painterly images, and often compared with Baroque and Renaissance paintings. The water within the images flows life to all areas, taking on bold curving forms and transforming everyday people into angelic creatures.

Christy Lee Rogers is a visual artist from Kailua, Hawaii. Her obsession with water as a medium for breaking the conventions of contemporary photography has led to her work being compared to Baroque painting masters like Caravaggio. Boisterous in color and complexity, Rogers applies her cunning technique to a barrage of bodies submerged in water during the night, and creates her effects using the refraction of light. Through a fragile process of experimentation, she builds elaborate scenes of coalesced colors and entangled bodies that exalt the human character as one of vigor and warmth, while also capturing the beauty and vulnerability of the tragic experience that is the human condition. Her works have been exhibited globally from Paris, London, Italy, Mexico City to Shanghai, Sao Paulo, South Africa, Los Angeles and more, and are held in private and public collections throughout the world.

Catch The Human Collection on view at 3rd Street Crossing through June 30th, and learn more about Christy Lee Rogers on her Instagram.