Sept. 1, 2025: Opening Sept. 6 — Alla Rogers is included in a new comprehensive overview exhibition, “Women of the DMV” at American University Museum’s Katzen Center. Curator Lenny Campello’s historic overview is the most comprehensive of its kind to date in the US
Monday Morning Magic from Inkandescent® PR + Publishing Co. — Artist and Art Curator Alla Rogers founded the Alla Rogers Gallery in Georgetown in 1990 as a showcase for contemporary European and American Art. For decades, she focused on the newly accessible art from Eastern Europe and the countries of the former Soviet Union. Her gallery was in the vanguard of this focus. After 32 years, following the pandemic, she closed the Georgetown gallery in 2022 — and is now working her magic online around the world to continue her legacy: AllaRogersGallery.art.
An award-winning, highly celebrated international artist herself, Alla has exhibited her own paintings in Kyiv at The National Fine Art Museum of Ukraine, Ukraine’s national collection of art treasures. Two of her works were selected for the US Embassy’s permanent collection in Kyiv through the Art in the Embassies program.
“Emerging,” by Alla Rogers. Acrylic and textural media on canvas.
Coming this week, one of her beautiful pieces, “Emerging,” has been chosen to be part of the American University Museum at the Katzen Center survey exhibition, Women Artists of the DMV. “This is the largest curated survey of contemporary living women artists in the nation and the first survey of female visual artists working across the DMV,” according to curator Lenny Campello, who says the art event uncovers the breadth, diversity, and creative “superpowers” of female artists working today in Washington, D.C., Maryland, and Virginia.
About “Emerging:” Alla says, “This is perhaps the most abstract of my paintings. It is simply meant to suggest what it says: Emerging, the birthing of something. It is earthy and brooding and struggling at times, as is life. It is constantly emerging, uninhibited, a flow to be accepted. Acrylic and textural media on canvas.”
Click here to find a list of all the women artists, including Alla.
Scroll down for her Artist Statement. And check in regularly to learn about upcoming art shows, salons, artist talks, and more at AllaRogersGallery.art.
Until next Monday: May art soothe your soul, fill your heart, and bring us all together in peace. We’ll see you at Alla’s opening on Saturday, Sept. 6! — Hope Katz Gibbs, founder and president, Inkandescent® Inc. Inkandescent.us
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“Memory,” by Alla Rogers
Artist Statement: Alla Rogers, “Women Artists of the DMV”
Mine is a very personal journey into abstraction. It is a pathway to find expression for the transcendent, sacred, and eternal.
Using symbols, color, textural media and silver and gold leaf while guided by my intuition, I attempt to express an insight, a mood, a reflection about my own awareness of existence in an eternal landscape.
“Above the Throng,” by Alla Rogers
With color, archetypal symbols, and personal references to my own internal practice of focusing within, a conclusion or feeling concerning the sacred and eternal is explored. You might call some of my painting abstract icons. In my work, the circle often symbolizes a fixed reference point in the eternal landscape; unity, the world, oneness, centrality and it is a female symbol. Other strong symbols are triangles and various geometric forms in timeless relationship to one another as if in a cosmic minuet.
The symbolism of color is very important to my work as it is the means of conveying mood, atmospherics and energy. It is an energy that brings us all into being. I give myself permission to see up close from a jewelers perspective or telescopically at the cosmos as we know it.
As a visual communication I seek balance, harmony and an aspiration towards beauty for myself and the viewer who may not be aware of the underpinnings of my work.
Learn more about the artist: AllaRogers.com.
Click here to learn more about the exhibition at the Katzen Center, Sept. 6-Dec. 7, 2025.