“Acting on the realization that landscape (and more inclusively, nature) was more than what I looked at, I redirected my attention to painting processes, which, interestingly enough, often paralleled the agricultural processes I had known all my life,” Rohrer once recalled. “I built all-over surfaces by layering brushwork in which color was often extracted from seasonal information.” The artist named this painting for Caernarvon, a rural community in Southeastern Pennsylvania.
Rohrer was a native of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. In 1984 he moved with his wife, Jane, into the former studio of Violet Oakley in Philadelphia’s Mount Airy neighborhood. Rohrer attended Pennsylvania State University and taught for twenty-five years at the Philadelphia College of Art (later the University of the Arts). His work is in many museum collections, including Woodmere, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, the National Gallery of Art, the Phillips Collection, Denver Art Museum, Smith College Museum of Art, and the Delaware Art Museum. Locks Gallery has represented the artist and his estate since 1974.
