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MATRIX Fine Art Kuzana Ogg
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Artist Statement and Resume
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The home of my great-grandparents is graced by a gigantic mango tree. As a child, I was taken by my grandmother to visit her mother and siblings there. While eating iced cakes and cucumber sandwiches, I used to gaze into the mango tree, marveling at its depth, breadth and multitude of growing leaves and ends. I watched this tree flower, fruit and feed the community with several thousand mangos per year. It also housed hundreds of wild parakeets, beautiful moths and butterflies.
The first pieces in this series are lush in color and complex in form. As the work progresses, the paintings become monochromatic with symbolic punctuations of color. The latter part of the series, contains more abstract work: shapes are compressed and simplified, while color is flattened. These paintings share a contemplative quality celebrating change and growth as experienced in nature and humanity.
Currently, I am working with images of persimmons and lotus leaves. I combine botanical and anthropological forms to describe my relationship to the environment. These distilled forms, combined with layers of varying transparency, convey my experiences and memories of life in the small town of Kyung Ju, South Korea. By grafting the lotus leaves onto stems of the persimmon fruit, I am synthesizing two distinct plant species. This is often the way that memory works, recombining and filtering truths. In the same way that a honeybee gathers nectar from a variety of blossoms, I garner images from experiences and memories. After being brought to the hive, or in my case-the studio, the nectar is processed into honey. This new substance is a synthesis of flora and fauna.
The titles of the work in this series are Korean. They have been chosen randomly to express the incidental manner of acquiring language. As such, they are simultaneously non-specific and distinct; reflecting the ambiguity in form and color of the paintings themselves.
Date and Place of Birth: 1971, Bombay, India
Education:
1995: BFA in Studio Arts, SUNY, Purchase, NY
Solo exhibitions:
2010: Worli, Matrix Fine Art, Albuquerque, NM Pochkhanawala Road, Gallery Gray, World Wide Web 2008: Honey, solo show, Matrix Fine Art, Albuquerque, NM 2007: Under 500, Matrix Fine Art, Albuquerque, NM The Gallery at the Mesa Public Library, Los Alamos, NM New Gallery Artist, Matrix Fine Art, Albuquerque, NM 1994: Triangle Gallery, Purchase, NY
Group exhibitions:
2010: Private Eyes, Artists' Vision, Marin Museum of Contemporary Art, Novato, CA Art in Embassies, United States Embassy, Belmopan, Belize The Garden, United States Embassy, Riga, Latvia 2009: Lush: Abstract Paintings, Matrix Fine Arts, Albuquerque, NM The Sketchbook Project Art House Gallery, Atlanta, GA Museum of Contemporary Art, Washington DC Laconia Gallery, Boston, MA Antena Gallery, Chicago, IL Soulard Art Market, St Louis, MO 3rd Ward Gallery, Brooklyn, NY Museum of Design, Atlanta,GA 2008: Victoria Arts Connection, Victoria, Canada. Santa Monica Art Studios, Santa Monica, CA. Erasing Borders, Exhibition of contemporary Indian art in the diaspora.
Queens Museum of Art,
Flushing Meadows, NY 2007: Harwood Museum, Taos, NM. National Museum of Women in the Arts. Theertha Red Dot Gallery, Pitakotte, Sri Lanka Montgomery College, Rockville, MD. Group show entitled Rhythm and Blues 2006: The Anderson Center for Interdisciplinary Studies, Red Wing, MN 2003: New Mexico School of Mines, Socorro, NM 1995: Schwarinsky Gallery, New York, NY
Fellowships:
2008: Rachel Allen Printmaking Fellowship, Albuquerque, NM
2007: Theertha International
Artists’ Collective, Pitakotte, Sri Lanka
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