Stacy Bogdonoff
Stacy Bogdonoff · Source: New York Artists Circle · Rights retained by the original rights holders
- Medium
- Acrylic Paint, Fiber, Paper, Recycled
- Based in
- New York City; New England
- Practice
- Collage, Fiber/Textile Art, Mixed Media, Stitching, Works on Paper
Stacy Bogdonoff is an NYC and New England-based artist, making two- and three-dimensional art exploring the theme of ‘Home and Shelter’. She often uses vintage textiles, paper, metal, and wire in her work and sources her… Full biography
Biography
Stacy Bogdonoff is an NYC and New England-based artist, making two- and three-dimensional art exploring the theme of ‘Home and Shelter’. She often uses vintage textiles, paper, metal, and wire in her work and sources her media at thrift stores, flea markets, and hardware stores.
Bogdonoff currently maintains two studios: a large, dirty one in Kent, CT. and a smaller, table-top workspace in Manhattan. She regularly shows at juried exhibitions in NJ (including the Montclair Art Museum), NYC, and the Hudson Valley. She’s a member of TSGNY (Textile Study Group of New York), SDA (Surface Design Association of NY, CT., and NJ), and NYAC (New York Artists Circle). She is also a curator and exhibition installer at The Blue Door Art Center in Yonkers, NY.
Bogdonoff has won several awards recently including Best in Show at the BWAC (Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Center) and an Honorable Mention from the Stamford Art Association/Ferguson Library show, in the fall of 2022.
She’s currently at work on a solo exhibition to be held at The NY Public Library in the fall of 2023.
Artist statement
I make two- and three-dimensional art using mixed media, always exploring the theme of ‘Home and Shelter’.
I work at the intersection of media, process, and concept. My studio is full of crumbled paper, florist wire, rust stains, peeling digital prints, vintage linen, torn canvas edges, and oil-stained rags. My tools include a 100 lb. metal rolling mill, a portable coat rack, foot-long upholstery needles, and plastic dental floss loops. I buy minnow netting by the yard, unexposed reels of celluloid recording tape, and tangled skeins of embroidery silk at flea markets. With this media and these tools, I create art that explores our definition of home and how its changes as we age and move through life. I explore loss and change as people in our lives die, as we downsize, and/or move away.
I look back on where I’ve lived and forward as my family grows.
At this stage of life, I have deep clarity about my finite resources: time, attention, space, money, health, and purpose. My goal is to stay aware and conscious about how I balance, share, and spend these gifts. Making art is my answer. It challenges my mind and heart, structures my time, and helps me create order out of chaos. I understand why I’m here by creating art.
