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Jermaine Rogers is a well-known artist and designer, mostly making rock/pop poster art, also known as 'gigposter' art, serigraph and fine art. He was born in Houston, Texas in 1972 on the 14th of October and is currently living and working in Houston and Brooklyn, New York. He started his career as a member of the 1990's Texas Poster-art scene featured with fellow artists Frank Kosik, Uncle Charlie and Lindsey Kuhn. He has come far and has now designed posters for a variety of musician's performances and album covers. Some of these bands and musicians being Radio Head, Neil Young, Tool, Deftones, Tori Amos, David Bowie, Morissey, The Vultures, The Foo Fighters, and hundreds more. He is also recognised by his amazing 'designer vinyl' or 'urban vinyl' art style with his limited edition 'art toys': Plastic figurines, mostly bought by art collectors which have risen quickly in value.

Influence
Jermaine has mentioned painters Vincent Vangogh and Egon Schiele, as well as 1950's EC comic artist Graham Ingels, and developing 'punk rock' poster artists Raymond Pettibon and Frank Kozik as major influences in his artwork. Rogers artistic style is also influenced greatly by 20th century advertising that created the idea of 'Pop art' in the 1950's and American underground comic book artwork. Jermaine also promotes what he calls 'culture hijacking', comparing and contrasting many features of pop culture with a ton of unrelated ideas.

Work
His figurine 'Dero' was his first to be put up on the vinyl market, released in 2004 and was an immediate success. It introduced Jermaine to the vinyl movement that was growing making him an experienced artist in the movement. Dero is a bear shaped figurine with red cat slit eyes and a cross shaped mark across its forehead. 'Squire' was his next figurine released, coming out in 2005. This figure cemented Jermaine's place in the genre. The figurine had previously appeared in Rogers rock-and-roll posters, featuring in AFI and Death Cab For Cutie. Its head is that of a human and its body is that of a pig. He also makes his figurines out of resin, fibreglass and bronze sculptures. He has also helped make a design for vans, which were released in 2009 as a part of the Vans Fall collection.

Mentioned in
Jermaine's work is catalogued among the permanent collections of the Rock and Roll Hall Of Fame in Cleveland, Ohio as well as the Experience Music Project in seattle, Washington. His work has been seen on VH-1, MTV and FUSE TV, the work being viewed as influential in the modern change of art forms. Rogers poster artwork has been featured in various books including The Art Of Modern Rock, Juxtapox: Poster Art, SWAG: Rock Posters Of The 90's, Gigposters Vol.1: Rock Show Art Of The 21st Century, The Art Of British Rock and others. His vinyl figurines, sculptures and toys have also been mentioned and shown in books such as TOYGIANTS, MTV Overground: Toys, I AM PLASTIC, Strangeco, Jamungo, Kid Robot and others. Jermaine himself has been features in four documentary films, America Artefact: The Rise Of The American Rock Poster, The Vinyl Frontier, Just Like Being There and TOYS ARE US: A Revolution In Plastic.