Roll Hardy

Russo Lee Gallery presents “Recent Paintings” by Roll Hardy. While exploring Portland and surrounding areas by bicycle, Hardy assembled this latest body of work. He states, “I chose subjects, and scenes that struck me in the moment with their gritty ephemeral beauty”. Building on his previous exploration of capturing the mysterious and the evocative, Hardy continues to paint marginal places that sit between somewhere and nowhere all at once.

A native of New Hampshire, Roll Hardy moved to the Northwest and graduated from the Pacific Northwest College of Art in 2002. As an emerging young painter, he received several scholarships during his studies including the C.S. Price Award for Painting in 2002, Thesis Prize, Pacific Northwest College of Art, 2002, and The Venice Foundation Painting Scholarship, 2000-02. He has completed both private and public commissions, including a series of pieces for the Visual Chronicle of Portland collection. His work has also been included in group exhibitions including Critical Messages: Contemporary Northwest Artists on the Environment, which toured to Western Washington University, Bellingham, WA; Hallie Ford Museum of Art, Salem, OR, and Boise Art Museum, ID; and Up on the Wall, 6 Painters from the West, Prichard Art Gallery, University of Idaho, Moscow, ID.

Artist Statement 2025

Recent Paintings

February 6 – March 1, 2025

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