Rodger Stevens

Rodger Stevens (born 1966 in Brooklyn, New York) is a contemporary American artist.

Stevens graduated from the Poly Prep Country Day School in Brooklyn and went on to study economics at Manhattanville College in Purchase, New York, and at Pace University in Manhattan. Stevens then attended Parsons The New School for Design and the School of Visual Arts. From 1994 through 1999, he worked at Sotheby's. In the early nineties he began exhibiting his drawings and sculptures at small galleries throughout New York and eventually in more renowned venues such as the Tiffany & Co. windows, the MTV headquarters, the Todd Oldham boutique and the Yohji Yamamoto showroom in SoHo. In recent years he has done commissioned work for the Whitney Museum of American Art, the American Folk Art Museum, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, Barneys, Stuart Weitzman, the Rockwell Group, Jonathan Adler, Starbucks, and the W Hotel. In 2011, he was selected by the Persol eye wear company to be a member of their "Work of Persol" artist series. Stevens continues to show his work in New York, California, and elsewhere. His work has been featured in numerous publications and featured in dozens of blogs. He recently collaborated with designer Mark McKenna on an illuminated mobile called Orchadia and developed a line of lamps for Green Depot. His work is currently represented by the Abingdon 12 gallery in Manhattan’s West Village.

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