Produced in New York City during the COVID-19 crisis, Chris Bogia’s new drawings are a sharp departure from the dynamic daytime palates of his recent works. These watercolors on paper present themselves as nocturnal: dark and geometric, they are a pictorial means of processing day to day life during the ongoing pandemic. The subjects of these works range from the artist’s hours of escapism spent playing video games, to political anxieties, the sounds of the city, and a longing for this “limbo-life” to end.
Chris Bogia received his MFA from Yale University and his BA from New York University. Bogia was a recent recipient of the Jackson Pollock - Lee Krasner Foundation Grant; a Queens Council for the Arts, New Works Grant; as well as a Rema Hort Mann Foundation Artist Community Engagement Grant. He was also an artist in residence at the Queens Museum Studio Program from 2017-2018. Recent exhibitions include Shulamit Nazarian, Los Angeles, CA; Grizzly Grizzly, Philadelphia, PA; The Bureau of General Services: Queer Division, Bravin Lee, Kate Werble, SPRING/BREAK Art Show, and the New Museum, New York, Mrs., Maspeth, and Ortega y Gasset, Brooklyn, NY. Bogia is the co-founder and director of Fire Island Artist Residency, the world’s first LGBTQ artist residency.
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