“Sea of Tranquility” – Renaissance Ceiling by Christy Lee Rogers

Often referred to as the contemporary counterpart of Baroque master painters like Caravaggio and Rubens, Christy Lee Rogers is known for capturing the hope and vulnerability of the human condition in her works.

In Christy’s latest work “Sea of Tranquility”, the fragility and vulnerability of her experience as a photographer culminates in a landscape of angelic figures sprawled out in a circular design fit for any majestic Renaissance ceiling: the duality of the central figures, a man and a woman, lay opposite each other as if guiding us on some higher purpose.

Set in a sea of color and complex and chaotic shapes, the figures are oddly serene, united by reflecting materials and a central core. In “Sea of Tranquility” the artist questions humanity’s need for suffering in order to be fully free, as if suffering and freedom formed its own conspicuous dichotomy.

“Sea of Tranquility” (detail) by Christy Lee Rogers

Accordingly, Christy named it after the first location on another celestial body visited by humans: the landing site on the Moon called “Mare Tranquillitatis” on July 20, 1969. If we can send a man to the moon, what else are we capable of? I wonder if we can end war on this planet.

“Sea of Tranquility” (detail) by Christy Lee Rogers

In this work she hopes to express the coherence of human experience leading to the core of our greatest strengths: our quest for beauty, hope, compassion, understanding, love and truth.

Rogers often refers to art as an exploration of the human condition; our strengths, weaknesses, freedoms, vulnerabilities and desire to unshackle the chains that hold us down.

“Sea of Tranquility” (detail) by Christy Lee Rogers

Christy Lee Rogers’ “Sea of Tranquility” will be available as a unique ceiling installation and large format prints will be available.