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​Bob Roher,
​Mosaic Artist

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Artist’s Statement
 
Walking down a street in New York City’s SoHo district in the autumn of 2002, I noticed a classical mosaic in a store window. At that moment all my artistic interests, from photography to ceramics, merged into a desire for the tactile.

Having just returned from making photographs in Provence, I was thinking about the ways images are captured and interpreted. Looking at the mosaic, I realized that this medium is a way to give multiple lives to my images. Having composed an image through a camera lens, I could not only make prints, but also transform it into something different, a stained glass mosaic.

Since discovering mosaic, I have worked in what is now the last studio in NYC. In March my workspace closed in response to the Corona Virus shutdown.  I was lost. Where could I work? I needed to find a space where I could break glass and wouldn’t have to worry about injuring others. Outdoors might work but it was still cold. So I waited and planned. I picked up my camera and started exploring LIC for “mosaic ready “images.

Finally in early May the weather broke. I decided to try the roof garden in my building. It has become my studio. I’m able to work every morning. My new mosaics are part of my “Pandemic Series”

​Contact: roherglassmosaics@pobox.com

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"Bacchanal" (2019, 26" x 38", $2300)
"Winter Barn" (34" x 23", $2300)
"Trailer Graveyard" (30" x 18", sold)

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"Brooklyn Bridge" (21" x 33", $4000)

"California Cabin" (30" x 22", sold)
"Garage" (30" x 18", 2006-2008, sold)

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"Manhattan Sunset" (29" x 22", $2300)

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"View from 1 Whitehall Street" (30" x 23", $2,300)
My "Pandemic Series"
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"Livia" (sold)
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"Sunflower" (Long Island City, sold)
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"Gantry" (Long Island City, 16" x 13", sold)
"Unicorn #1" (12" x 12", $350)
"Unicorn #2" (sold)
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"DUMBO" (Brooklyn, 13" x 16", $550)
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"Pennsylvania Railroad Powerhouse in 1909" (Long Island City, 13" x 16", $550
"Tulips" (Long Island City, 10" x 12", $350)
"Radishes" (10" x 12", $350)
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"Reflections #2" (15" x 18", $950)
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"Riomagiori, Cinque Terre, Italy", 16”x13”, $1,150
"Pandemic Series: Ginkgoes for Irv" (2021, 13" x 16", sold)
"Pandemic Series: Reflections #3" (2021, 13" x 16", $900)
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"Gantry w/Transfer Switcher", (Long Island City, 16” x 13”, $550)
"Blackberry Barn" (2021, 22" x 18", NFS)
"Stormy Day at the Barn" (2022, 16" x 13", NFS)
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"Urban Jumble" (2022, 16"H x 13"W)
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  • Inspired Retired Visual Artists-home
  • Galleries
    • Doug Brooks, Ceramic Artist
    • Rosemary Brooks, Fine Art Painter
    • Alan Neuberg, Watercolorist
    • Larry O'Neill, Fine Art Painter
    • Michael Padwee, Photographic Artist
    • Ira Pearlstein, Found Object Art/Low Tide Art
    • Bob Roher, Glass Mosaic Artist
    • Vince Tancredi, Glass Artist