KIRK HOPPER FINE ART

ROGER WINTER AT 90

May 31 – July 5

Opening Reception

Saturday, May 31, 5:00-7:00 pm

Artist will attend virtually

Roger Winter is an artist of searingly original visions that combine formal rigor and spiritual mystery. Time’s passage, the preciousness of the natural world, the beauty of mundane things are all hallmarks of his work. The philosophical questions that emerge from his paintings, drawings and collages deal with our identity and existence, our solitary state in the world, our limits in space and time. Winter’s art explores the stories we tell ourselves about ourselves: our families, our country and the porous border between history and myth. The everyday fears and anxieties that shadow us on our awkward trip through time often feel enormous, even cosmic. For over seven decades, however, Winter has endeavored to find images and situations that give form to those metaphysical yearnings.

In honor of Winter’s 90th anniversary, Kirk Hopper Fine Art is pleased to present a retrospective exhibition that highlights the Texas artist’s prodigious breadth and great wingspan. Joining the thirty works on view, ranging from 1965 to 2025, are a number of major paintings generously loaned by Dallas collectors who have supported- and celebrated -Winter’s magical powers of storytelling to provide both solace and transcendence. Like a writer or musician, Winter has developed an ability to be in the moment while standing apart as an observer, a novelist’s eye and singer’s ear for detail, a precise but elastic voice capable of moving easily between the lyrical, the vernacular and the profound.

Roger Winter’s career spans over seven decades. His work transforms tremendously due to his determination to continually experiment and his openness to change. Through his mastery of color and line, the artist creates paintings with a premeditated complicity that encourage the viewer to explore the canvas in a rhythmic motion.

During his tenure at Southern Methodist University, Winter mentored some of the most important contemporary artists in Texas, including John Alexander and David Bates.

Roger Winter was born in Denison, Texas. He holds a BFA from the University of Texas at Austin and a MFA from the University of Iowa. His works are included in permanent collections of the Dallas Museum of Art, the El Paso Museum of Art, the Meadows Museum of Art in Dallas, and the McNay Museum in San Antonio.

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