Roger Herman's ceramics and canvases harmonize a cacophony of styles. Shifting between abstraction and figuration, vivid palettes and dark hues, glossy surfaces and matte earth tones, the artist’s pieces are united by a gestural rawness and spontaneous vibrancy. Herman has shown widely in the United States and Europe. Solo exhibitions include the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Santa Monica Museum of Art, and Museo del Arte Contemporana, Mexico City. His work has been included in numerous group exhibitions, including at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; MoMA P.S. 1, New York; the Walker Art Museum, Minneapolis; the Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, Ohio; Museum Ludwig, Saarlouis, Germany; and Art Museum of São Paulo, Brazil. Herman has been on faculty for the department of painting and drawing at UCLA since 1990.