ART FWD Benefit Auction and Celebration
102 - Janet Bogardus
Silent Auction
Closed
$1,200
Current Bid: $700
Urbania
Acrylic, acrylic ink, charcoal, conte crayon
35 x 61 inches
Courtesy the artist
“We live within and are dependent on nature, yet because of our ‘nature’ as investigators, inventors, builders, and molders of our environment, we degrade it,” explains Janet Bogardus of the ideas behind Urbania, part of her In Xanadu series. “Radiant cities offering beauty, creativity, entertainment and opportunity, also emit blight and waste. Digital realms allow illusions of floating free of earth and other creatures, yet we still seek feelings of awe, soothing, and the primal connectedness we find in nature.” Bogardus’s work, as she puts it, “invites viewers to feel both realities — the sublime and the degraded — as they occur in our present moment.”
Exhibitions and Collections: Bogardus’s work has been featured in solo exhibitions at Eddie Rhodes Gallery, San Pablo, CA; Manna Gallery, Oakland, CA; and Art Benicia Presents, Benicia, CA. Her work is held in private collections throughout the United States.
Credentials: Bogardus received a BA from Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA; a PhD from Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ; and an MFA from San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA. She has been awarded artist residencies with the California Art Council, Berkeley, CA, and the California Arts Council, San Francisco, CA.
Bogardus has been a MarinMOCA artist member since 2012, and her solo exhibition Terrain: The Uncontrollable Flow of Nature was on view in the museum’s 2nd Floor Gallery, March 2 – April 21, 2019 as part of MarinMOCA’s Members Showcase exhibition program.
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