Roger Allan Cleaves: A World on Fire
Now through April 12, 2026
Dixon Gallery and Gardens
Memphis, Tennessee
dixon.org
Native Memphian Roger Allan Cleaves is a painter and writer whose current work centers on “Forget Me Nots Land,” a fictional multiverse of his own creation. Launched by the artist in 2017, the “Forget Me Nots Land” series is a complex Afrofuturist fantasy that purposefully resists easy explanations and simple summaries. “A World on Fire” is the most recent chapter of this ongoing epic narrative. Cleaves’s colorful, abstract, and distorted figures and landscapes synthesize influences from the history of modernism including Cubism, Surrealism, and Pop, with the aesthetics of collage and comics.
Find out more: https://www.dixon.org/roger-allan-cleaves-a-world-on-fire
[Image: Roger Allan Cleaves, Raised by Wolves, 2025. Oil on canvas, 40 x 30 inches.]
