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The ChromeSun Bio of Herb Roe |
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Roe has
been a professional artist for over 17 years, and has been making and
selling commissioned pieces for far longer. Follow the commissions
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When I was 12 years old I discovered
what I wanted to do for the rest of my life. All thru high school I
worked on building a portfolio that would help me get into an art
school. After high school, I attended the Columbus College of Art
and Design for a year. When I returned home to Portsmouth, Ohio for
the summer, I met Robert Dafford. I began working for him as a
summer job on the then newly commissioned Portsmouth Floodwall Mural
Project. That fall, Mr. Dafford asked if I'd be interested in
working for him for a year instead of immediately returning to
school at C.C.A.D. I decided to take a year off, and it turned into
many more, and what began as a summer job turned into a 15 year
career. Thru all of the intervening years I continued to work on my
own paintings and drawings, incorporating all he and the other
artists at Dafford Murals had to teach me. Over the years my
personal work has ranged over a variety of subjects and mediums.
My more recent work has focused on my adopted home of South
Louisiana, including a series of oil paintings and graphite drawings of the Courir de
Mardi Gras. I discovered the Divine Comedy of Dante
Alighieri and have been adding different scenes to illustrate it
for over 15 years. Since 2000 I've started incorporating digital
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into my work, doing a majority of my
preliminary work in Photoshop and related programs. I've
spent more than a few years trying to teach myself renaissance
style oil painting techniques. I think I learned how to paint a
decent landscape. I began a long term project writing and
illustrating a graphic novel, The Black Sun. I've self-published
the first 3 chapters, and am planning on finishing the last 3
chapters and trying to have it published the old fashioned way.
Some of my work is historical illustration, my second love has
always been history and archaeology. I'm especially interested
in illustrating American Indians, specifically the Mississippian
Era of prehistory. Many of my pieces reflect my love of
mythology, allegory, and spirituality. But no matter what
techniques, mediums, or subject matter I explore in a piece, I
always try to show my understanding of truth and light
{metaphorical as well as literal} in my art. I firmly believe
there is beauty and truth in all aspects of existence, and it is
the purpose of artists, whether they're painters, poets, etc.,
to communicate and translate this to the rest of humanity.
Through our art can be seen our understanding of the world and
existence, where we are and where we have been. And more
importantly, where we can go. I hope you appreciate my art for
what it is, my little slice of existence, my keyhole on the
world. There are many galleries of my different kinds of work
here.
Paintings,
Drawings,
Digital Illustrations,
digital animations,
The Black Sun, and of
course Murals.
For those who've seen my work before, I hope you find something
new. And for those who are seeing it for the first time, I hope
you like it and come back. I'll be changing and adding things
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Exhibits
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In 2002 I exhibited at the Cite
des Arts in Lafayette, Louisiana during the
Festival International de Louisiane.
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In 2008 I was included in the
Acadiana Center for the Arts "Southern
Open", an annual juried show open to
residents of 5 Gulf Coast States. That year
the juror for the show was Peter Frank.
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In September 2009 I had a Solo
Exhibit at the A. I. R. Studio in Paducah,
Kentucky.
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Multiple shows at the
"Warehouse on Garfield St. Artist Studios",
a review of one of the shows can be read
here
"Off the Beaten Path at the Warehouse on
Garfield" by Reggie Rodrigue, November 28,
2011.
Clients
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German science magazine PM,
article "Der
Blut-Mythos der Cahokia", August 2010
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American Archaeology
Magazine, article "Reexamining Kincaid
Mounds", Vol. 14 No. 3, Fall 2010
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Zydeco
Cajun Prairie Byway Commission, "poster/map",
2009, see image
here
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Series of murals and signs for
"Outlaws Saloon and Dancehall" in
Lafayette, La with Chris Fruge of
www.Extremecanvas.com November 2010, see
selected images
here.
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A 50' mural for the
"Run
thru History" organization in Vicksburg,
Ms, depicting the annual 10 K run through
the National Military Park, with Benny
Graeff. Fall of 2010. See images
here.
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A 20' mural in Paducah, Ky of the
"Centennial of Troop 1", for the
Paducah Wall to Wall organization.
Summer 2010, see images
here.
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