ARTIST ANGELA ROGERS: “DANCE, SPIRIT, DANCE!”

A NEW YORK-BASED ARTIST KNOWN FOR HER SMALL, MAGICAL, TAROT-INSPIRED FIGURES CREATES HER LARGEST SCULPTURE EVER

Published on December 16, 2025

by Edward M. Gómez

We first examined Angela Rogers’ art in 2022, following her participation in the Outsider Art Fair, which took place in New York in March of that year, the last year of the coronavirus pandemic. At that time, Rogers’ works were on view in the booth of Fountain House Gallery, a New York-based institution with which she is still associated today. (Angela Rogers on Instagram: @angelajrogers)

The intravenous-drip support stand, on wheels, that Angela Rogers used as the main armature for her mixed-media sculpture “Spirit,” and the scrap of driftwood that became the support for the artwork’s arms. Photo courtesy of the artist

Back then, we took note of Rogers’ mixed-media figures — her “Poppets” — with their outstretched arms, mermaid-like tails, heads bound up like stuffed sausages, and probing eyes. Fabric, colored thread, cowrie shells, beads, little ornaments, and other materials go into the making of Rogers’ talisman-like figurines, which, she told us, are derived from the well-known principal characters of the tarot, the centuries-old card set that has long been used to play games and as a tool for fortune-telling.