Mary Bogdan's Page

Relationship status

Married

College / University

Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec Canada

Member type

Artist

If you're an artist, what kind of art do you make?

Installation

I am...

Mary is a mixed media artist who paints, creates 3D assemblages, photography, video & produces limited edition prints. Recently, she had her third book published. A graphic designer by profession, Mary Bogdan is co-founder and partner of Crayon Design & Communication, a Montreal-based graphic design firm, with husband artist/photographer, Sol Lang.

About my artwork

I am a “glaneuse”, a gleaner… In scrap heaps of abandoned or demolished buildings, alleyways and flea markets, I find rare treasure. Garbage. Remnants of wood and metal, books, boxes, old paintings, all that have been discarded are interesting to me.

My work deals with obsolescence. Each “found” object has out-lived its time and has therefore been scrapped. Dead. I rescue and assemble them with collected items from my own past. I sense the object’s energy guiding its reincarnation to a higher purpose. Art.

These artifacts that have chosen me, tell stories of where they have been, where I have been, where I am and where I am going. Stories of passion and anger, strength and weakness, love, hate and fear. Revealing me to me.

Artists I like

Robert Rauschenberg

Interests

art

If you wasn't an artist, what other Profession would you do?

graphic design

Favourite Personal Quote

happy happy! to be me. I am beautiful. I am human. I am worthy. The sacred inner spirit is strong in me as in all of us, if we just go into the silence and listen to it. Find it... Allow it to resurface... This is why I am happy happy!

What exhibitions are good at the moment?

Mine ! at Gesù, centre de créativité, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

The Centre of the Artworld is

nowhere and everywhere

My Web Address is

http://www.marybogdan.com

Favourire all time artist?

Robert Rauschenberg