Opens October 16th, 2025

The Haight Street Art Center is delighted to present Hiding Places: Jermaine Rogers—Posters, Serigraphs, and Assorted Works, running from October 16 to December 14, 2025. A reception for the artist will be held on October 17 from 6 to 9 p.m., the night before The Rock Poster Society’s annual Festival of Rock Posters at the Hall of Flowers in Golden Gate Park, where Rogers will have a booth.

Featuring more than 125 gig posters and art prints, many of them rarities and remarqued one-of-a-kinds, as well as exclusive drops of vinyl toys, a few fiberglass figures, and scores of original drawings, Hiding Places is the largest showing of the Houston, Texas, native’s work in a decade.

As a rock-poster artist, Rogers works in a notoriously exploitative world, in which bands and promoters pay artists as little as possible to goose their take at a concert’s merch table. Fair being fair, Rogers makes sure he gets what he needs out of his clients, which means that his posters are always about more than just a band’s name, a venue, and some dates. A typical Jermaine Rogers rock poster (if there even is such a thing) features sharp commentary on the routine hypocrisies and acts of downright evil that pervade contemporary culture. Rogers’ fans love that his posters are both cool and have something to say, as do his clients, perhaps because his uncensored speech blunts grumblings that they might have sold out.

As an artist, without the “rock-poster” modifier, Rogers takes his observations on the human condition even further, often letting a menagerie of recurring characters—floppy-earred bunnies, woodland raccoons, and mildly creepy bear-like creatures called Deros—give voice to his fears, insecurities, and general sense of outrage. “You need not rush out to meet me halfway,” Death in the form of a green-robed skeleton cautions Rogers’ alter-ego Leporidae, its bony finger poking the bunny’s nose. In another piece, a downcast rabbit stands above a lyric famously sung by Nina Simone that could apply to interpersonal experiences or broader ones: “Get up from the table when love is no longer being served.” Good advice.

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