Roger Herman has been painting over three decades, has taught at UCLA for 21 years, and is currently head of their painting department. Numerous individual and group exhibitions substantiate his reputation as an internationally recognized artist with more than 45 solo exhibitions in the United States, Mexico, Brazil, France, Germany, and Japan. To know the artist's work is to know Roger Herman loves to paint. As art critic John Weber wrote, "While Herman's compositions explore the boundary between abstraction and representation, one of the most significant aspects of his art is its strong allegiance to the sensual, material nature of the mediums he works in. When Herman paints, he makes the paint itself apart from the image it depicts, an unavoidable presence on the canvas." Herman states, "My work is always a search about the possibility or impossibility of painting--- whether I'm painting about something or merely painting something..."