Megan Bogonovich
I like to tell intimate stories. I like to feel like I am sharing a quiet and detailed secret, one that you want to lean in and listen to. Clay is a good material for stories. It is inviting. A richly detailed and repetitively patterned surface makes a viewer come close. Clay has craft connotations, and relationships in scale to the figurine that make it feel accessible. But still, clay inspires a “how did they make this?” kind of wonder. Clay is known to be fragile and that brings out a gentle and cautious side to a viewer. It can slow down the rush, and inspire patience. The sculptures combine naturalistic and abstracted imagery to suggest the possibility of the real and the imagined cohabitating, a whimsical reality. Unusual growths, curious routes, unlikely pairings, strange predicaments, surprises and wonder, comfort in the unlikely.
Megan is currently an artist in residence at artstream studios.
