Megan Bogonovich:
Untethered / Over-watered

Megan Bogonovich’s sculptures delight audiences with exuberant, otherworldly botanical forms that feel at once futuristic and nostalgic. Her whimsical-seeming work eases viewers into more grounded universal concepts of adaptability and resiliency in both humans and the natural world. She creates colorful, toy-like, alien-plant and hybrid-fungi forms that bend, spiral and multiply in unexpected ways in order to accommodate one another, to thrive in adverse terrains, or to respond to human interventions- like excessive pruning. Their vibrant surfaces are covered in spiky, bumpy textures that read as both delightfully decorative and potentially poisonous, adding layers of humor and mystery. 

Megan Bogonovich’s ceramic sculptures have been shown nationally and internationally, including at Felix Art Fair LA,CA, and NADA, Paris with Mrs. Gallery, Volta Art Fair, NYC and Spring Break Art Fair, NYC with Kishka Gallery, Kent Museum, VT, Plains Art Museum, ND, Disjecta Contemporary Art Center, Portland, OR, and Fuller Craft Museum, MA. She is based in Norwich, VT and is represented by Gallery Kishka. 

THICKET
curated by Kirstin Lamb
Curator’s tour of THICKET and discussion:
Saturday, June 28, 4 pm

“Many artists are drawn to middle spaces, collective in-betweens to gather. Thicket here is a middle space, not a clearing or a dense cover. This group of artists reflects an impulse toward greenery and lushness tempered by scale. Many works show a density but with a welcome uncertainty.

There is a sense that the thicket is both compellingly lush and dangerous and also small and weedy. Some works showcase the threatening precariousness of edge spaces, others detail the invasive species that constitute a great many thicket-spaces.

Each artist chosen for this investigation reveals a corner of the brush, from bright greenery to scrubby brown and orange dead leaves below. There is a clean well-lit space rendered in textile and a squishy lush dark space in oil. Some works present abstractions of the idea of thicket, from the energy of the twittering birds to the strangeness of the combination of life growing at the edges of farmland and human civilization. I invite you into each artist's world, many of them jewel box depictions of space outdoors. Most importantly, this is a gathering space.”  –Kirstin Lamb, curator 

Participating artists: Kate Bae, Olivia Baldwin, Eve Biddle, Liza Bingham, Ramon F Bofill, Emily Clare, Edwige Charlot, Katie Commodore, Dawn Edmonson, Wendy Edwards, Rachel Frank, Cadence Giersbach, Jodie Mim Goodnough, Grace Hager, Barry Hazard, Eric Hibit, Jennifer Hilton, Jee Hwang, Mary Kocol, Katie Lane, Amanda Lechner, Tess Michalik, Georgia Mischak, Nadia Haji Omar, Annalisa Oswald, Amy Jean Porter, Alicia Renadette, Cristi Rinklin, Peter Roux, Jennifer Shepard, Toby Sisson, Tiffany Smith, Jeremy Stenger, Amy Talluto, Mara Trachtenberg, Chris Ulivo, Emma Welty, Brett Day Windham, and Kelly Worman.

Kirstin Lamb:
After Cross Stitch

We invited Kirstin to show a small selection of her paintings alongside “THICKET”. Through this work we can better understand her passions, her perspective and the context within which she made her curatorial decisions. Kirstin is represented by Gallery Naga.