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(STILL) The Most Controversial Artist in Arizona.

Rogo is a lauded, internationally exhibited illustrator and printmaker, whose work traverses the scorched intersections of mass culture, taboo, and ecstatic rebellion. A graduate of the Art Institute of Pittsburgh (1991), he has maintained a monastic devotion to two enduring forces: the uncompromising creation of art and the outlaw poetry of skateboarding and punk rock.

Forged in the crucible of traditional disciplines, Rogo’s practice merges the raw physicality of crow quill, brush and ink, serigraph, and linoleum block printing — each stroke an invocation of the tactile, the violent, the sacred. These hand-rendered fragments are reanimated through digital alchemy into dense, analog-digital collages, where exploitative public domain imagery writhes against the stark intimacy of original photography.

Heir to the transgressive lineage of Pop Art titans like Andy Warhol and Robert Rauschenberg — and spiritual kin to low-brow provocateur Frank Kozik — Rogo wields the lost weaponry of serigraphy to carve neon-lit monuments to excess and entropy. Every print, saturated in shrieking color and anchored in brutalist monochrome, invites the viewer to a ritual of touch, memory, and confrontation.

The SMUT series is a feral opera of minuscule detail and bold anatomical violence: a psycho-sexual Freudian collision, laced with Jungian archetypes and mass-produced mythologies. Tragedy, atrocity, and sexual aberration entwine into a shifting dreamscape that ricochets between Abstract Expressionism and Dada — a joyride through the wreckage of modernity itself.

Rogo’s artwork has been featured in The New Yorker, the television series Hawaii Five-0, collaborations with numerous skateboard companies, and served as the personal photographer to the legendary Tony Hawk.

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