Tyler Park Presents is pleased to present Recess Perfume, the gallery’s first solo exhibition with Julian Rogers. The exhibition will be on view from March 1 - April 6, 2024.

Julian Rogers’ practice employs still life and scapes to explore optical and phenomenological possibilities in painting. Using light and thin layers of oil paint, his realistic renderings depict subjects that feel open-ended and exploratory. Creating vibrant and almost impossible-looking representations of imagined space, mythology, and created realities that tap into the familiar as well as the strange.

The paintings of Recess Perfume take as their subject not clouds, but an absence of ongoing narratives. The works are fictional or artificial, created from a photographic archive that are seamlessly stitched together from vastly different parts of the world that capture large formations that are untouchable, impermanent, and overpowering with a psychedelic array of colors from iceberg blue to tropical pastels. They are not landscapes, nor still life paintings, nor fantasy, nor sci-fi, nor realism, nor in reference to anything on heaven or Earth other than themselves. There is a tendency to see them as perhaps relating to abstraction, then, although they resist this as well. Yet they clearly have a mood, perhaps celebratory here or foreboding there, that one might recognize. Like perfume, they seem to exist for their own sake without much explanation needed.

Julian Rogers (b. 1981) is an American artist living and working in Chiang Mai, Thailand. He holds an MFA from the University of California, San Diego (2015) and a BFA from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville (2007). His work has been exhibited in group exhibitions domestically and internationally at venues such as Tyler Park Presents, Los Angeles; ACME, Los Angeles; Commonwealth and Council, Los Angeles; Zone Gallery, Osaka; Universidad del País Vasco; Biblio; and the UCLA Wight Gallery, Los Angeles. His work has held solo exhibitions previously at venues such as Red Arrow Gallery, Nashville; Ditch Projects, Eugene; ACME, Los Angeles; and Helmuth Projects, San Diego. His work has been written about in publications such as ArtForum, Artsy Editorial, and CARLA. His work is included in the collection of the Museum of Contemporary, San Diego.