Jason Rogenes

American Artist Jason Rogenes was born in 1971 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. After acquiring a taste for art as a child and through his teen aged years he decided to attend the University of California San Diego for a Bachelor's Degree and graduated in 1993. In 1995 he graduated from the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in Maine. And finally in 1995 he graduated with a M.F.A. from the University of California Santa Barbara.

He specializes in producing art in mostly LA and NYC that deals with mainly post consumerism products such as Styrofoam, cardboard, and tape. He combines theses materials and makes them into a beautiful sculpture like piece, without doing hardly any work. He uses Styrofoam from TV packages, cardboard boxes, and other materials like this to make high-tech looking pieces. He explores the idea of what consumers waste in the process of getting what they really want. Which reflects on how people in real life will do anything to get what they want at any cost.
The artist takes a simpler approach to making his pieces. He really wants to explore the materials that he is working with, so therefore, so he learns how to make them. He then looks at the material as a solid and undefined object, so it can be anything that he wants it to be. He then works with the material to see what its limits are and how he can carve and manipulate the forms to become something beautiful and unique.
Rogenes also is a master at taking advantage of the blurring lines of architecture and sculpture than has been happening for many years. He take advantage of this by making his pieces large and dominant in the space that they reside. However, they command a sense of respect with their elegant beauty and prestige. He is excellent at finding a balance between the materials so that they compliment each other while still having an importance of individualism.

The artist also does a remarkable job of having the pieces resemble that of a space station of a transportation unit used in space travel. It is ever present that the artist plays into the viewers sense of fantasy and bringing the impossible into the possible through Styrofoam. He well defines what is and is not his style by commanding that he be the greatest Styrofoam/packing material artist that their ever was, I agree with this. He has a way about him that makes you  think that he can make virtually anything that you want out of any packing material.
He does not make his artwork figure to necessarily mean anything, rather he uses his materials to comment on the social issues that are going on in our world today. He discovered his material while working in a small mall in the LA area. He noticed how many people were throwing away the material and wondered how it could be used. He took some and, with his art background, started to make sculpture out of them. They turned into theses massive, intricate figures that it turnes out, people want to buy or display in their gallery.

The artist is very humble about the fame that his artwork has encountered recently. He thinks that he is blessed, yes, but he does not throw it onto you like you should know who he is. He finds the fact that he comes upon the materials by chance as a gift, like he was supposed to use this material for art, and to make a statement to the public about their unnecessary waste.
I think that his artwork is truly amazing! It is stunning and massive so that is commends your attention. He makes the art in a way that makes theses useless objects useful and even beautiful in the process. I think  that they are so very gorgeous and really help emphasize how much out community wastes as a society.