Roger Bischoff began his exploration of art around 1972 as a figurative and realistic painter.  Bischoff  began traveling in foreign lands, experiencing different cultures and customs. Eventually, this led him to feel the need to share, via drawing and painting, both his own experiences and those he shared with the inhabitants of the various countries he visited .  These drawings and paintings, often quite sketchy in nature, became a mainstay in Bischoff´s Oeuvre from his ecclectic past to the present time.

In 1986 Bischoff landed in a stone quarry in Salzburg, Austria. There he learned -- and fell in love with -the gratification of stone and stone carving. As his  interest developed to embrace the three dimensional, he spent many years thereafter working in quarries around the world.  This work so closly related to the `Material´ led him further into the abstraction.  According to Bischoff, "I had no longer the need to depict ears and noses, elbows and feet".  He found his own "Form Language" which uses geometric and architectonic shapes. Using this language, he expresses feelings characteristics accentuated by human relationships.  Forms who penetrate one another, hold tight and push apart. Forms whom, yet different in character are connected inseparably one with one another.  Forms open from within, letting light touch upon their centers, which had been, perhaps, for millions of years, closed and dark. Forms meet together with creative tension, amorphous and geometric elements, contrasting through polished and raw surfaces.  Thus both harmony and opposites determine the composition and symbolize, the work of Roger Bischoff.

Gary  Bischoff

Dina Ruth Pearlmann