Michael Rohde's Statement

For more than thirt years, I've been exploring color relationships in my work, often in pure geometry with no particular reference to objects or ideas. Over the past eight or nine years, some semblance of content, or more obvious reference to other textiles has begun to creep into the work.

The current work uses the house image as a starting point, and explores many meanings of home and shelter, as well as the disruptions to these essentials by the actions of man and nature.

Michael Rohde's Biography

The work of Michael F. Rohde has been published in numerous exhibition catalogs, been the subject of media articles across the country and he is author of multiple international magazine articles. Recently, he has had works selected by the US State Department Art in Embassies Program, for display in Rabat, Morocco and Moscow, Russia. Museum shows have included invitational exhibitions at the American Craft Museum, the Craft and Folk Art Museums in Los Angeles and in San Francisco, the Wustum Museum in Racine, Wisconsin. Solo exhibitions venues include La Jolla Fiber Arts and Regent College in Vancouver. In 2004, Michael had a tapestry installation as part of the Eleventh International Tapestry Triennial in Lodz, Poland, and Textile 05 in Kaunas, Lithuania. His work is in the permament collection of the Art Institute of Chicago.