Richard Bogart

BORN: 1929, Highland Park, Michigan

Personal Statement:
The ambiguity and mystery of nature have been the foundation of all my art, from my early non-objective and abstract work to the current mystical mirror-images of trees reflected in water.

The distillation of rain and mist among the alizarin branches of springtime, the pond under evening mistwaves, or the solitude of trees shrouded in a morning fog all lend themselves to a lyrical but obscure paint surface. Not always landscape painting in the true sense of the work, but intuitive, with an attempt to link 12th-14th century Chinese landscape painting, 19th century French Impressionism and contemporary American color-field into an art of historical reverence and personal intimacy.

EDUCATION:
School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Graduate, 1952

University of Illinois, 1954

Black Mountain College, North Carolina, 1956

EXHIBITIONS:
Michigan Artists, Detroit Art Institute, 1949, 1963

Exhibition Momentum Midcontinental, Chicago 1953

Wells Street Gallery,Chicago, 1958

Riverside Museum, New York, 1964

Poindexter Gallery, New York, 1967, 1968, 1970, 1973, 1979, 1983

Peridot Gallery, New York, "The American Landscape", 1968

The Museum of Modern Art, Ambassador Program, New York, 1968

American Federation, Traveling Exhibition, "The American Landscape", 1969

Joslyn Art Museum/Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery
"A Sense of Place: The Artist and the American Land", 1974

Meredith Long & Co., Houston 1977

Connecticut Painting & Drawing & Sculpture, 1978

GMB Gallery, Birmingham, Michigan 1982

Artist Showcase, Connecticut Commission on the Arts, 1984

"State of the Artist", The Aldrich Museum, Ridgefield, Connecticut, 1987

J. P. Natkin Gallery, New York, 1985, 1986, 1987

Douglas Drake Gallery, New York, 1990, 1992

Munson Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut, Landscape 1990

Gallerie 454, B...