May 8th - 30th

Roq La Rue is pleased to present Prehistoric - a group show themed around ancient creatures of yore. Inspired by the near universal love and wonder modern culture has with dinosaurs - we envisioned a show not necessarily of scientifically accurate Paleo-art, but rather artists unleashing creative flights of fancy. Dinosaurs, extinct mega fauna, cryptids, and other ancients beasts all make an appearance in this fun and magical show!

Electric Coffin
Fossil Fuel
Glass, acrylic, wood
33" x 27" x 3"
$7,500

Electric Coffin (NW USA) depict animals that represent not just the natural world or environmental forces, but also spiritual drives or progressive aspects that drive humans such as progress, the desire for expansion, and exploration. These animal symbols almost always carry a machine of some type of their back, bound to technology and relentless human ambition that can be used for positive or negative purposes. Here the mammoth wins.

D. Allan Drummond
Life Plate
bronze Eldredgeops trilobote sculptures (4), Devonian rock (with Eldredgeops trilobite fossil)
approx 10” x 12”
SOLD

D. Allan Drummond (MidWest USA) is a molecular biologist with a deep appreciation of Trilobites- long extinct arthropods that ruled the seas for millions of years. Through extensive study he meticulously and exactingly reproduces and sculpts various species in order to “bring them to life”. Here we see the life cycle of the species Eldredgeops created in bronze, set upon a rock containing the fossil imprint of the original creature. (The trilobites here are all removable).

JB Burke
The Silent Witness
Colored pencil on paper
11”x14"/ framed 12.25” x 15.25"
SOLD

JB Burke (Southern USA) creates astonishing hyper realistic, boldly colored works created entirely in color pencil, usually depicting toys, candy and skulls in neon shades. Here she turns her attention to a Stegosaurus toy nestled in a sea of household plants- an approximation of a giant ancient dinosaur in its prehistoric habitat.

Travis Louie
Face in the Crowd
Acrylic on panel
11”x14” $4800.

Travis Louie is known for his darkly whimsical portraits of creatures and monsters done in a flawless painting style meant to evoke old Victorian Portraiture. Here he uses a rare ombre color effect to highlight a very nervous looking dinosaur in a sea of carnivorous kin.

Kim Slate
Until the End of Time
Clay, wire, gouache, acrylic, epoxy, wood
14" x 5-3/4" x 5-1/2"
SOLD

Kim Slate’s (NW USA) sculptural and cartoonish menageries feature animals with mischevous grins, usually in a duo. For the show she created these delightully impish sauropods.

Bub Davis
Can YOU Find the Dinosaur?
Charcoal & Graphite on Paper
17” x 23”/ framed 18” x 24”
SOLD

Bub (NW USA) is gaining rapid popularity for his singular visions and meticulous drawing style. This piece references children’s “find the…” games, as well as a slight nod to Rudolph Zallinger’s famous mural “Age Of Reptiles”.

Sally Hastings
Jurassic 'T-Rex Explorer'
Acrylic on canvas
16”x20”
SOLD

Sally Hastings (Australia) paints delightfully dynamic and kitschy scenes, often with giant gummy dinosaurs causing untold havoc.

Laura Laine
Glider
Charcoal and graphite on cotton paper
12.5” x 14”
$1,500

Laura Laine (Finland) creates moody and darkly beautiful, monochromatic drawings- usually of avant guarde fashionable women and swirling and spiky flowers. Here she captures a truly wild creature- based on the nocturnal and mysterious Colugo (or Flying Lemur) - or at least a more ferocious ancestor that the gentle creature we know today.

Jed Dunkerley
The Nashville Formation
Acrylic on panel
12”x16”
SOLD

Jed Dunkerley (NW USA) paints the world around him with a detailed and somewhat humorous take, here, he envisions creatures of the past freely roaming a landscape that bears the archeological record of our own time encoded in rock sediment (the age of plastic).

Jed Dunkerley
The Dubai Conglomerate
Acrylic on panel
12”x16”
$900

Jed Dunkerley
The Temple Bar Shale
Acrylic on panel
12”x16”
$900

Jason Puccinelli
Precious Cargo
Oil painting, epoxy on 3D printed PLA
6”x12”x6”
SOLD

Jason Puccinelli (NW USA) based this sculpture on his painting Bred In The Bone (2025). It is designed and handpainted by the artist and given a glossy shine to mimic ceramic tchotchkes. Alligators are considered “living fossils”, having existed in the time of dinosaurs and remaining virtually unchanged to this day.

Arpeggio Romiti
Remains
Glass beads, thread, velvet
7"x11"/ framed 9 1/2" x 13 1/2"
SOLD

Arpeggio Romiti (NW USA) is known for her monochromatic beaded works, usually of skulls and pop horror icons. Here she depicts of one of the most charismatic and famous dinosaurs - a ceratopsian, in the manner we usually experience ancient beasts- looking at thier wonderous bones.

Rebecca Chaperon
Alone at the Beginning of Time
Acrylic on panel
12”x12”
$750

Rebecca Chaperon’s (Canada) work explores female divinity and the occult through a dreamy and romantic lens. Here she contemplates a strange but sweet being in a primordial landscape.

Ariel Bowman
Let Them Eat Cake
Ceramic, Mixed Media
17" x 31"x 22"
$4,750

Ariel Bowman’s whole oeuvre is the sculptural depiction of prehistoric animals (usually long extinct mammals). Ignited by her love of natural history and the bizarreness of evolutionary adaptations (for example the bizarre horns and tusks of the ancient —— set upon the clocks seen below), she sculpts each creature in the manner it truly was, but then sets them in a baroque fantastical environment. Here, a lemur- also known as a “living fossil” lies sumptuously amongst a banquet of treats, and in the piece below, a Thylacine (aka a Tasmanian Tiger- an carnivorous marsupial whose origins stretch back millions of years yet only went extinct in 1936) is given a beautiful lace collar and a velvety and gilded bed- as if to treasure an amazing thing we have lost to time.

Ariel Bowman
Thysbée
Ceramic, mixed media        
6’’x 20’ x 12’’       
$2,850

Ariel Bowman
Sinclairomeryx Wall Clock
Ceramic, mixed media
12’’ x 5’’ x 5’’
$1,200

(All clocks run on batteries and work- however the minute hand runs backward. In her words: “The clocks tick backwards presenting a challenge to the viewer’s expectations and understanding of time. Prehistoric animals are from deep time, the geologic time scale used to measure the age of the earth. These millions and billions of years are like hours and days to the minutes that have been human history. As the clocks tick infinitely backwards the mysterious animals of the past return, grow more powerful, and soon sit atop the remains of time itself. “

Ariel Bowman
Hayoceros Wall Clock
Ceramic, mixed media
12’’ x 5’’ x 5’’
$1,200

Ariel Bowman
Hoplitomeryx Wall Clock
Ceramic, mixed media
12’’ x 5’’ x 5’’
SOLD